Quotes by Holbrook Jackson - Page 1

When in doubt, risk it
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Doubt
Risk
When In Doubt
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Great books conserve time.
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Book
Great Book
Writing
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Genius is intuition on fire.
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Fire
Genius
Intuition
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Genius is initiative on fire.
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Intelligence
Fire
Genius
Initiative
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Originality is only variation.
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Originality
Variation
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Your library is your portrait.
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Library
Portraits
Writing
Portrait
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Happiness is a form of courage.
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Courage
Happiness
Happy
Motivational
Smile
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Intuition is reason in a hurry.
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Instinct
Intuition
Reason
Hurry
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Forgive everybody but yourself.
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Advice
Forgiving
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Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.
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Bargaining
Form
Sacrifice
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Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
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Pedantry
Scholarship
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Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
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Fool
May
Suffering
Fools
Gladly
Suffer
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Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
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Book
Reading
Writing
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No man is ever old enough to know better.
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30th Birthday
Age
Men
Enough
Old
Ever
Old Enough
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Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.
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Friendship
God
Dog
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Be contented, when you have got all you want.
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Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.
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Love
Self
Subtle
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
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Book
Grows
Reading
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The better the book the more room for the reader.
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Book
Reader
Rooms
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The end of reading is not more books but more life.
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Book
Literacy
Reading
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As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.
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Accepted
Ideas
Rejects
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Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.
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Inspirational
Motivational
Book
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Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.
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Advice
Elderly
Trying
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People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.
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Art
People
Want
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Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
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Patience
Cowardice
Limits
Take
Too
Far
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A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
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Children Never Mother
Longer
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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
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Happiness
Joy
Laughter
Missing
Miss
Discuss
Seek
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Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.
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Desire
Joy
Path
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The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.
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Men
Revolt
Revolution
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Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
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Habit
Undoing
Your Better Will
Beware
Better Will Your
Habits
Surely
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Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
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Censorship In Books
Generations
Mind
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The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.
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Appointments
Night Time
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Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
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Book
Children
Hate
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History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
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Book
Obscenity
Prove
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The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
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Consistent
Giving
Poor
Rich
Sell
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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
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Integrity
Regret
Vices
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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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Funny
Ignorance
Mistake
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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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Society
Class
Two
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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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Blind
Great Men
Real
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Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
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Book
Forever
Joy
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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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Book
Drunk
Reading
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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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Book
Exercise
Reading
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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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Men
Self
Sorrow
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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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Home
Air
Book
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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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Art
Illness
Inclination
Joy
Night
Reading
Sorrow
Apparatus
Hour
Practiced
Whenever
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Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.
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Jealous
Book
Soul
Suffering
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