Quotes about Sydney Smith

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be...

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What you don't know would make a great book.

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

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What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and...

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To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and...

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

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The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a...

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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not...

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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

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Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

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Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

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