Henry S. Haskins quotes

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. (Henry S. Haskins)
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. View quote
Henry S. Haskins
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light. View quote
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When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone! View quote
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Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. View quote
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Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. View quote
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When a man's success becomes commonplace to him, it is his success no longer. View quote
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A distant destination austerely reached rarely compensates for a loved starting-point forever lost. View quote
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Compliments have lost their lure by the time a man does not have to fish for them. View quote
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If imagination would disentangle itself from absurdities, soon we should have it harnessed to reason, pulling the same plough. View quote
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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. (Henry S. Haskins)
Tradition supplants inspiration with the warmed-over article. View quote
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Where you find imagination tracing the outlines and reason filling in the details, there you have a man. View quote
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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. View quote
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He who longs for the far-away proves thereby that he has corrupted the near-at-hand. View quote
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Avoid membership in a body of persons pledged to only one side of anything. View quote
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Who can set us straight in our labyrinth from the mazes of his own? View quote
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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?”. (Henry S. Haskins)
There is not an ounce of our former strength which is not doing some sort of job, right now. View quote
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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. View quote
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The way to get the most out of a victory is to follow it with another that makes it look small. View quote
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When you start to indulge yourself, remember it is what they do with invalids and children. View quote
Henry S. Haskins

Henry S. Haskins

Occupation: American Writer
Born: 1875
Died: 1957
Quotes count: 89
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