Henry S. Haskins Quotes

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It is getting what we started to get, not the thing got, which spells success.

Henry S. Haskins
For a competent audience, uncommon men must have other uncommon men.

Henry S. Haskins
Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered.

Henry S. Haskins
Who can set us straight in our labyrinth from the mazes of his own?

Henry S. Haskins
Thought the fool is to be pitied, still he is spared watching spurious wisdom turn to ashes in his head.

Henry S. Haskins
Twenty is in hot haste to become a year older and cast its first vote, which Forty will know was cast like the legendary pearls.

Henry S. Haskins
Proud souls in the true sense are never humbled by adversity.

Henry S. Haskins
When you start to indulge yourself, remember it is what they do with invalids and children.

Henry S. Haskins
Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for.

Henry S. Haskins
Be a sincere effort never so misguided, to laugh at it is a breach of faith with decency.

Henry S. Haskins
What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Henry S. Haskins
No conscience which is a palimpsest of the consciences of others is a safe guide.

Henry S. Haskins
Avoid membership in a body of persons pledged to only one side of anything.

Henry S. Haskins
The things we counterfeit are not worth the trouble of falling into disgrace with ourselves.

Henry S. Haskins
Stand aloof from your own opinions; they seek to lure you with an illusive certainty.

Henry S. Haskins
We should train our desires to show the way to our dreams.

Henry S. Haskins
Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

Henry S. Haskins
Man is liberated from his illusions to make room for a fresh set.

Henry S. Haskins
By an unfailing coincidence, the man who wrongs us is a villain, and the man who does us a kindness is a saint.

Henry S. Haskins
The tongues of conscience need a conscience of their own to keep them from speaking before they know what they are talking about.

Henry S. Haskins
There is not an ounce of our former strength which is not doing some sort of job, right now.

Henry S. Haskins
A distant destination austerely reached rarely compensates for a loved starting-point forever lost.

Henry S. Haskins
Acting as your own sovereign power, grant yourself oblivion for past offences.

Henry S. Haskins
Tradition supplants inspiration with the warmed-over article.

Henry S. Haskins
The rare individual who has learned to govern himself is too fed up with the labor of it to want to govern anybody else.

Henry S. Haskins