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

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 134

“The things we counterfeit are not worth the trouble of falling into disgrace with ourselves.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 140

“Some live lies who won’t tell them; some tell lies who won’t live them.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 119

“The man who feels that he must be hopeful and cheerful to get along ignores the careers of some pretty successful misanthropes.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 103

Hope , Feeling , Success

“Not a little of our condemnation of the acts of others is spillage from our own condemnation of our own acts.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 110

“Stand aloof from your own opinions; they seek to lure you with an illusive certainty.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 111

“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

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 58

“… memories that never ride anything but sound waves.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 46

Memory

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

Henry S. Haskins

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

Faith , Effort , Sincerity

“Tradition is a prison with majority opinion the modern jailer.”

Henry S. Haskins

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

“Man is liberated from his illusions to make room for a fresh set.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 93

“By an unfailing coincidence, the man who wrongs us is a villain, and the man who does us a kindness is a saint.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 109

“Proud souls in the true sense are never humbled by adversity.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 43

Soul , Sense

“Man is sadly retarded by allowable imperfections.”

Henry S. Haskins

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

“Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 99

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

Henry S. Haskins

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

Business , Time

“There never is any diminution of the vast majority, indifferent to what they are, whence they came, and whither they go, who rush from business to pastime, and from pastime back to business, leaving no vacancy into which the unknown might slip a little experimental greatness.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 57

Business , Indifference

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

Henry S. Haskins

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

Confidence

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

Henry S. Haskins

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

“Our portion of life is the whole thing for us.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 38

Life