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Letter "S" » Sydney Smith
"We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into
the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square
person has squeezed himself into the round hole."
Author: Sydney Smith
About: Ability
"A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen
writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with
pleasure."
Author: Sydney Smith
About: Adversity
"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."
Author: Sydney Smith
About: Calamity
"Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 The greatest curse which can be entailed upon mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace – all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions or by the thoughtless extravagances of nations – are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over the world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war – every principle of Christian charity is trampled upon."
Author: Sydney Smith
About: Christianity
"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."
Author: Sydney Smith
About: Confidence
"Oh, herbaceous treat!
'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat;
Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul,
And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl;
Serenely full the epicure would say,
"Fate cannot harm me,–I have dined to-day."
Author: Sydney Smith
About: Eating
"It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him."
Author: Sydney Smith
About: Faith
"Good friends are good for your health."
Author: Sydney Smith
About: Friends Friendship
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
Author: Sydney Smith
About: Goals
"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."
Author: Sydney Smith
About: Happiness
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