#heir

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else? ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#anyone #cent #comes #complete #else

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#generous #only #people #their #think

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#asia #commercial #countries #england #fifty

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#awesome responsibility #because #children #create #depends

I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives. ↗

— Gregory Harrison

#careful #drag #family #how #i

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#clearness #crazy #great #hear #inner

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#characters #community #depth #does #exists

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#function #hope #idea #liberate #means

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#commonwealth #comparison #destined #distinguished #foundation

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#because #colonies #departments #england #government