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

Henry S. Haskins

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

“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

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

Henry S. Haskins

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

“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

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 131

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

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 132

“Vacant minds have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.”

Henry S. Haskins

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 70

“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

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

Henry S. Haskins

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