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There are 42 quotes for the author Sydney Smith

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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.
Subject: Confidence

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
Subject: Talent

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Subject: Silence

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

I have seen nobody since I saw you, but persons in orders. My only varieties are vicars, rectors, curates, and even now and then (by way of turbot) and archdeacon.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

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.

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.

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.

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

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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