Sydney Smith , was an English writer and clergyman.
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“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
Sydney Smith
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
“No furniture is so charming as books”
“Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.”
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“Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.”
“What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?”
“Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, nothing is so expensive as glory”
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.”
“Do not assume that because I am frivolous I am shallow; I don't assume that because you are grave you are profound”
“Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble”