Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
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Praise is the best diet for us, after all
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A Curate - there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a Curate!!!
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Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones
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A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime
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Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society
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A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
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All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
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The man who talks of an unalterable law is probably an unalterable fool
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Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.