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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
Fears
Boundaries
Direction
Dreams
Happiness
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Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the right answer more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.
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People decline invitations when they are indisposed physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
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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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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
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God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
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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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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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