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Sydney Smith Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Sydney_Smith.jpg/220px-Sydney_Smith.jpg)
An English writer and Anglican cleric. Sydney Smith (June 3, 1771 – February 22, 1845) was an English writer and Anglican cleric.
Here are some famous quotes by Sydney Smith.
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Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
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Take short views hope for the best and trust in God.
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He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop.
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That sign of old age extolling the past at the expense of the present.
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I have gout asthma and seven other maladies but am otherwise very well.
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Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time.
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We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.
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Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.
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I never believe facts; Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.
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Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come; desire is the wish it may come.
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Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
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You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.
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He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
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When you rise in the morning form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
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Madam I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
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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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He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever; he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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Heat madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
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Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.
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Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.
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You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
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Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
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It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.
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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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Marriage 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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Whatever you are by 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.