English - Clergyman | June 3, 1771 - February 22, 1845
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.
Sydney Smith
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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 give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
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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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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
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I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
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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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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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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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