Sydney Smith

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#destroys #great #great virtues #little #ones

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. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#feebleness #forgetting #fortify #human #intellect

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

#celebration #contain #even #fact #illusion

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#business #delight #go #love #rise

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#back #cold #danger #doing #jump

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! ↗

— Sydney Smith

#england #pity #religion #vice

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? ↗

— Sydney Smith

#horrors #life #scene #without #would

What you don't know would make a great book. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#giving #half #join #minute #never

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. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#day #deal #effort #every #every day