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Quotes of Sydney Smith American Tennis Player
Sydney Smith Photo and Biography
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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. (compatibility)
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. (churches)
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. (correction)
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. (greatness)
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How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service. (churches)
A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage. (courage)
Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory. (glory)
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. (faith)
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. (friends and friendsh)
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. (home)
It 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. (marriage)
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? (mathematics)
Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them. (marriage)
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. (letters)
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. (praise)
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. (ignorance)
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. (manners)
To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence. (love)
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. (poverty and the poor)
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. (power)
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. (philosophers and phi)
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can. (perseverance)
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. (preachers and preach)
His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. (silence)
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. (self-love)
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Smith, Sydney
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