Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
SYDNEY J. HARRISUsually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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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 – and the next tunnel.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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