Henry S. Haskins quotes - page 3

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough. (Henry S. Haskins)
It is the honest lies we tell-statements factually correct and essentially deceiving-which debauch our manhood and stunt our growth. View quote
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We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd instinct. View quote
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We condemn a sin before we have even tried it. View quote
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners. View quote
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It is when we start to discipline our mind that we discover how many undisclosed relationships it already has. View quote
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Expletives serve opinions well which are not sure enough of themselves to risk expression in restrained language. View quote
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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. View quote
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For a competent audience, uncommon men must have other uncommon men. View quote
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Thought the fool is to be pitied, still he is spared watching spurious wisdom turn to ashes in his head. View quote
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Many a superior brain is blockaded by inferior thoughts. (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. View quote
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We should train our desires to show the way to our dreams. View quote
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Academic questions are interlopers in a world where so few of the real ones have been answered. View quote
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We are no more alike under the skin than we are on top of it. View quote
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The things we counterfeit are not worth the trouble of falling into disgrace with ourselves. View quote
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Some live lies who won't tell them; some tell lies who won't live them. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Stand aloof from your own opinions; they seek to lure you with an illusive certainty. View quote
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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)
... memories that never ride anything but sound waves. View quote
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Be a sincere effort never so misguided, to laugh at it is a breach of faith with decency. View quote
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Tradition is a prison with majority opinion the modern jailer. View quote
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Man is liberated from his illusions to make room for a fresh set. View quote
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