Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
great
What you don't know would make a great book.
greatness men people
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
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To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence
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Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
greatest mistakes
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
courage deal great lost talent
A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
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Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing
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Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
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It 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.
best
Live always in the best company when you read.
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It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
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Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
business love
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.