Quotes from Meditations in Wall Street — Henry S. Haskins
1875–1957 United States
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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.
It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.
The things we counterfeit are not worth the trouble of falling into disgrace with ourselves.
When you start to indulge yourself, remember it is what they do with invalids and children.
Vacant minds have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.
Stand aloof from your own opinions; they seek to lure you with an illusive certainty.
He who longs for the far-away proves thereby that he has corrupted the near-at-hand.
No conscience which is a palimpsest of the consciences of others is a safe guide.
The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.
The unfortunate who has to travel for amusement lacks capacity for amusement.
Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for.
Avoid membership in a body of persons pledged to only one side of anything.
Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
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