Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
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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.
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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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What you don't know would make a great book.
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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
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The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings him
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The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Praise is the best diet for us, after all
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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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Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures
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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.
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Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it