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Only Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
- People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
- If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
- Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
- What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The…
- Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This…
- It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our…
- A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is…
- It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
- The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light…
- We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
- Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.
- Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
- It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many…
- Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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