Genius is initiative on fire.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Holbrook Jackson
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Your library is your portrait.
Wisdom
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
Wisdom
No man is ever old enough to know better.
Wisdom
Intuition is reason in a hurry.
Wisdom
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Happiness
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
Wisdom
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.
Happiness
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
Wisdom
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Wisdom
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
Life
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
Wisdom