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Type: Clergyman Quotes Category: English Clergyman Quotes Date of Birth: June 3, 1771 Date of Death: February 22, 1845 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Sydney Smith Related Authors: Thomas Fuller Matthew Henry Joseph Butler John Nelson Darby William Ralph Inge Richard Morris George Carey Timothy Radcliffe |
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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Sydney Smith Live always in the best company when you read. Sydney Smith Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. Sydney Smith Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. Sydney Smith Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. Sydney Smith Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. Sydney Smith Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. Sydney Smith No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. Sydney Smith Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. Sydney Smith Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. Sydney Smith Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. Sydney Smith The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. Sydney Smith The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. Sydney Smith To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight. Sydney Smith To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. Sydney Smith What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! Sydney Smith What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? Sydney Smith What you don't know would make a great book. Sydney Smith Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. Sydney Smith |
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