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Be a sincere effort never so misguided, to laugh at it is a breach of faith with decency.

— Henry S. Haskins Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

Compliments have lost their lure by the time a man does not have to fish for them.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

When a man’s success becomes commonplace to him, it is his success no longer.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

The man who has a dogmatic creed has more time left for his business.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Meditations in Wall Street (1940)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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