Henry S. Haskins Quotes

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Compliments have lost their lure by the time a man does not have to fish for them.

Henry S. Haskins
The man who has a dogmatic creed has more time left for his business.

Henry S. Haskins
Tradition is a prison with majority opinion the modern jailer.

Henry S. Haskins
The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.

Henry S. Haskins
When study becomes labor, we had better change the subject-matter as quickly as possible.

Henry S. Haskins
Sedate ignorance is the last stage of deterioration.

Henry S. Haskins
We have to serve ourselves for many years before we gain our own confidence.

Henry S. Haskins
If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.

Henry S. Haskins
When you think of the silly things people have said to you which have stopped you from saying the same silly things, you simply can't do justice to your gratitude.

Henry S. Haskins
We fall short when we ascribe all the modes of happiness to walking in paths of rectitude. There are joys which only tramps and thieves know.

Henry S. Haskins
Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

Henry S. Haskins
Vacant minds have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

Henry S. Haskins
The way to get the most out of a victory is to follow it with another that makes it look small.

Henry S. Haskins
Make a party over your negative thoughts, assuring them that they are the safest, the most cautious, company you have ever kept. At first they will swallow your flattery, but then suddenly, stricken with shame, and knowing themselves for the impostors they are, out and off they will go.

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The unfortunate who has to travel for amusement lacks capacity for amusement.

Henry S. Haskins
Many of us are impersonations of what we know we ought to be.

Henry S. Haskins
Many of our intentions die after we have put their harness on.

Henry S. Haskins
It is when we start to discipline our mind that we discover how many undisclosed relationships it already has.

Henry S. Haskins
It would be as natural for a full-grown tiger to mew as for a man released from the slavery of imitations ever to go back to his neighbor again with: What do you think of this? What do you advise about that?

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Expletives serve opinions well which are not sure enough of themselves to risk expression in restrained language.

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There are many branches of learning, but only the one solid tree-trunk of wisdom.

Henry S. Haskins
Remembrance of hopes that were silly has an especial tenderness, for much of their silliness came from a thoughtless credulity which we would be glad to have back again.

Henry S. Haskins
There never is any diminution of the vast majority, indifferent to what they are, whence they came, and whither they go, who rush from business to pastime, and from pastime back to business, leaving no vacancy into which the unknown might slip a little experimental greatness.

Henry S. Haskins
We demand about everything of ourselves but discrimination in what we demand.

Henry S. Haskins
If you obtain provision for yourself of spiritual abundance, don't throw the surplus at people's heads; feed it back into your own industry as capital for the production of more abundance.

Henry S. Haskins
The darkness around us might somewhat light up if we would first practice using the light we have on the place we are.

Henry S. Haskins
It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.

Henry S. Haskins
We are no more alike under the skin than we are on top of it.

Henry S. Haskins
He who longs for the far-away proves thereby that he has corrupted the near-at-hand.

Henry S. Haskins
Not a little of our condemnation of the acts of others is spillage from our own condemnation of our own acts.

Henry S. Haskins