Holbrook Jackson Quotes

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Genius is initiative on fire.
Holbrook Jackson

Intelligence, Fire, Genius

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
Holbrook Jackson

Patience, Far, Limits

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
Holbrook Jackson

May, Fools, Suffer

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
Holbrook Jackson

Mother, Children, Her

No man is ever old enough to know better.
Holbrook Jackson

Age, Enough, Old

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
Holbrook Jackson

Happiness, Miss, Lack

Intuition is reason in a hurry.
Holbrook Jackson

Reason, Intuition, Hurry

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

Give, Rich, Poor

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook Jackson

Habits, Beware, Surely

The end of reading is not more books but more life.
Holbrook Jackson

Life, End, Reading

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.
Holbrook Jackson

Time, Health, Art

Your library is your portrait.
Holbrook Jackson

Library, Portrait

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: 1874

Died: 1948

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