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.

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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.

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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

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If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.

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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.

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I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion

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

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

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Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life

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I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.

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Praise is the best diet for us, after all.

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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 thousand times worse than nothing.

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

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Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life

Sydney Smith
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