Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
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Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society
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Having heard the bishop I am now convinced of the apostolic succession from Judas Iscariot
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It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite of all false philosophy, is sweet to every human heart; but as eminence can be but the lot of a few, patience of obscurity is a
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A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
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He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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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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The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr
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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
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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.
inspirational motivational acting
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
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If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.
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Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.