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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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If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.
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If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the…
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My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or…
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We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is…
— Seneca the Younger
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The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his…
— R. Kent Hughes
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The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which…
— Unknown Author
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He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore,…
— Walter Scott
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An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
— Theophrastus
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Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of…
— Mas Oyama
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