"Filth is always a sign of weakness -……" — Sydney J. Harris
"Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer."
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141 Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris has 141 quotes on this site.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently…
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Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and…
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Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on…
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need…
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Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is…
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Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
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More Filth Quotes
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
— Tony Abbott
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There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.
— Winston Churchill
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Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power…
— Thomas Brooks
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Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is…
— George Carlin
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Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In…
— Origen
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Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
— Mao Zedong
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It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick;…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died…
— Anna Sewell
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Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth
— John of Salisbury
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