Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith (June 3, 1771 - February 22, 1845), was an English writer and clergyman.
Found 19 thoughts of 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.
Sydney Smith
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith
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.
Sydney Smith
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
Sydney Smith
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
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It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
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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.
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.
Sydney Smith
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
Sydney Smith
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney Smith
Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.
Sydney Smith
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith
What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Sydney Smith
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
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Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
Sydney Smith
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.
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