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Sydney Smith has 73 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and…
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Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.
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When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that…
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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…
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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…
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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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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards;…
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not…
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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…
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
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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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As a man must be born before he can begin to lead his physical life, so he must be born to lead…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can…
— Barbara Deming
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My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
— Douglass North
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There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
— Laozi
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Before you were born—before any of your defects were apparent to you—they were absolutely apparent to God. That didn’t stop Him from…
— Steven Furtick
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The mere fact that you belong to a certain ethnic group makes you eternally guilty, according to the twisted logic of Zionism.…
— Ernst Zundel
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Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.
— Sri Aurobindo
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One of the most distinguishing differences between liberals and conservatives in America is that the average Liberal feels that we should have…
— Derek R. Audette
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Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
— Erich Fromm
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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…
— Sydney Smith
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Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our…
— Osip Mandelstam
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Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.
— Osip Mandelstam
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