Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
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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
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It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
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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
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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.
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Live always in the best company when you read.
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It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
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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.
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What you don't know would make a great book.
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To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.
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Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
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The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping
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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
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To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence