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

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104

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

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 80

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

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 82

“Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 137

“It is only an uncivilized world that would worship civilization.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 22

“Normal is the wrong name often used for average.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p.135

“Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.”

Henry S. Haskins

Variant: Sedate ignorance is the last stage of deterioration.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 135

“The highest grades of humanity have passed through the millstones more than once.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 92

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

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 96

“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.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), pp. 91-92

“Dive where the water is deep.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 49

“A soul which is truly in earnest is not above disabling the body to discourage dangerous competition.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 81

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

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 35

“Only occasional hours meet our full requirements.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 37

“The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 108

“Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 22

“It is getting what we started to get, not the thing got, which spells success.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 133

“Some talk in quarto volumes and act in pamphlets.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 77

“Contentment has been worn as a crown by no end of sleepy heads.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 104

“It is not so much tutoring that the minds needs, but clearer recognition and better use of what it already knows.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 92