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Quotes from Meditations in Wall Street — Henry S. Haskins

1875–1957 United States

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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.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

It is the honest lies we tell—statements factually correct and essentially deceiving—which debauch our manhood and stunt our growth.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

Who can set us straight in our labyrinth from the mazes of his own?

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

We should train our desires to show the way to our dreams.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

We condemn a sin before we have even tried it.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

… memories that never ride anything but sound waves.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry S. Haskins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.