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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There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
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A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime
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Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.
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The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.
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What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
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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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A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.
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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.