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Sydney Smith [1771-1845] English

Rank: 103
Clergyman, Writer

Sydney Smith was an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric.

Courage, Happiness, Friendship, Health, Marriage, Nature, Respect

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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.	Nature	101
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.	Marriage	102
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.		103
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.		104
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.		105
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.		106
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.	Happiness	107
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.		108
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.	Courage	109
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.		110
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.	Respect	111
Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.		112
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.	Happiness, Health	113
I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.		114
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.	Friendship	115
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.		116
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.	Courage	117
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.		118
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.		119
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.		120
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.		121
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.		122
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.		123
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.		124
What you don't know would make a great book.		125
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.		126
Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.		201
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.		202
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.		203
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?		204
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.		205
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.		206
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.		207
Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.		208
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!		209
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.		210
Live always in the best company when you read.		211
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.		212

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