All Sydney Smith Quotes
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.
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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
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What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
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Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
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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.
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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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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.
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Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
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