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There are many branches of learning, but only the one solid tree-trunk of wisdom.
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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.
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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.
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We demand about everything of ourselves but discrimination in what we demand.
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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.
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The darkness around us might somewhat light up if we would first practice using the light we have on the place we are.
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It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.
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We are no more alike under the skin than we are on top of it.
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He who longs for the far-away proves thereby that he has corrupted the near-at-hand.
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Not a little of our condemnation of the acts of others is spillage from our own condemnation of our own acts.
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It is only an uncivilized world that would worship civilization.
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Some live lies who won't tell them; some tell lies who won't live them.
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… memories that never ride anything but sound waves.
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If imagination would disentangle itself from absurdities, soon we should have it harnessed to reason, pulling the same plough.
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Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it than to stay there after the zest of striving is removed.
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It is the honest lies we tell—statements factually correct and essentially deceiving—which debauch our manhood and stunt our growth.
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
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Where you find imagination tracing the outlines and reason filling in the details, there you have a man.
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The art of a pedant is to divert his pupils from noticing the smallness of his puddle, and to make them attribute his apparent size to his being a really big toad.
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The man who feels that he must be hopeful and cheerful to get along ignores the careers of some pretty successful misanthropes.
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It is not so much tutoring that the minds needs, but clearer recognition and better use of what it already knows.
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How often our bosom swells and our temples throb to a thought which proves itself not to be worth anything but for the exaltation we feel while the swelling and throbbing are going on, which after all is something.
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Henry S. Haskins
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Henry S. Haskins was a stockbroker and man of letters. His aphorisms were edited and published anonymously with an introduction by Albert Jay Nock in 1940.
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