Holbrook Jackson Quotes & Sayings

#1. Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

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#2. Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

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#3. The end of reading is not more books but more life.

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#4. Happiness is a form of courage.

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#5. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?

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#6. Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.

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#7. The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

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#8. Intuition is reason in a hurry.

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#9. Genius is initiative on fire.

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#10. A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

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#11. The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

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#12. When in doubt, risk it

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#13. Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

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#14. No man is ever old enough to know better.

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#15. There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

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#16. Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

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#17. We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

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#18. Be contented, when you have got all you want.

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#19. Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

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#20. Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

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#21. The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

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#22. The better the book the more room for the reader.

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#23. People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

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#24. Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

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#25. Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

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#26. Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

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#27. A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

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#28. Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.

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#29. The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

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#30. Originality is only variation.

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#31. Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

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