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Sydney-smith

Sydney Smith
(English Clergyman)

Nationality:: English
Quote count:: 84
Times favorited:: 114

Sydney Smith , was an English writer and clergyman.

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Sydney Smith

“Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, nothing is so expensive as glory”

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Sydney Smith

“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.”

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Sydney Smith

“Praise is the best diet for us, after all”

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Sydney Smith

“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.”

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Sydney Smith

“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”

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Sydney Smith

“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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Sydney Smith

“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship”

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Sydney Smith

“Heaven never helps the men who will not act.”

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Sydney Smith

“To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence”

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Sydney Smith

“"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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