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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 Quotes

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.

Action English Clergyman

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. - Sydney Smith Quotes

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Conscience English Clergyman

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 Quotes

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.

Action English Clergyman

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. - Sydney Smith Quotes

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

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 Quotes

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

American Journalist

An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument - Sydney Smith Quotes

An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument

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

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

English Clergyman

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. - Sydney Smith Quotes

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.

English Clergyman

Do not assume that because I am frivolous I am shallow; I don't assume that because you are grave you are profound - Sydney Smith Quotes

Do not assume that because I am frivolous I am shallow; I don't assume that because you are grave you are profound

Praise is the best diet for us, after all - Sydney Smith Quotes

Praise is the best diet for us, after all

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 - Sydney Smith Quotes

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

Food

The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping - Sydney Smith Quotes

The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping

Eyes

I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion - Sydney Smith Quotes

I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them. - Sydney Smith Quotes

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Couples Marriage

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 Quotes

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.

English Clergyman Marriage

Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures - Sydney Smith Quotes

Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures

Having heard the bishop I am now convinced of the apostolic succession from Judas Iscariot - Sydney Smith Quotes

Having heard the bishop I am now convinced of the apostolic succession from Judas Iscariot

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present - Sydney Smith Quotes

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present

"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

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts - Sydney Smith Quotes

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts

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. - 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.

English Clergyman

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? - Sydney Smith Quotes

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

English Clergyman Life

Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing - Sydney Smith Quotes

Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing

Motivational Nature Quote of the Day

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient - Sydney Smith Quotes

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

Man

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, nothing is so expensive as glory - Sydney Smith Quotes

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

Glory

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is,

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

The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings him - Sydney Smith Quotes

The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings him

Youth

I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so - Sydney Smith Quotes

I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so

Man

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

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

English Clergyman Habit

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. - Sydney Smith Quotes

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

English Clergyman Love

As the French say, there are three sexes, - men, women, and clergymen - Sydney Smith Quotes

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

Men

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. - Sydney Smith Quotes

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

English Clergyman Science

Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it - Sydney Smith Quotes

Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. - Sydney Smith Quotes

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

English Clergyman Solitude

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful - Sydney Smith Quotes

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful

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 Quotes

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

Courage English Clergyman

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. - Sydney Smith Quotes

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.

A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr - Sydney Smith Quotes

A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr

No furniture is so charming as books - Sydney Smith Quotes

No furniture is so charming as books

Books And Reading

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

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

English Clergyman Life

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. - Sydney Smith Quotes

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.

English Clergyman Mankind

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. - Sydney Smith Quotes

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.

English Clergyman Mind

Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society - Sydney Smith Quotes

Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. - Sydney Smith Quotes

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Clothes English Clergyman

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. - Sydney Smith Quotes

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

Faith

I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together - Sydney Smith Quotes

I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together

Man

The man who talks of an unalterable law is probably an unalterable fool - Sydney Smith Quotes

The man who talks of an unalterable law is probably an unalterable fool

Fools And Foolishness

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool - Sydney Smith Quotes

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

Law

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. - Sydney Smith Quotes

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Conversation Silence

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. - Sydney Smith Quotes

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Enemies Silence

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