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• It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

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  Wise, Strong, Powerful

  Sydney Smith (1849). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806”, p.102

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• Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.

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  Hope, Strong, Joy

  Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.138, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

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• When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

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  Morning, Resolution, Form

  Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.347

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• If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

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  Music, Earth, Rapture

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• Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

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  Sarcastic, Scotland, Knuckles

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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 due.

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  Important, Praise, Duty

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.202

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• Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

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  Time, Greatness, Men

  Sydney Smith (1859). “The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.315

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• Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

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  Love, Respect, Shadow

  "Sermons".

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• He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

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  Sarcastic, Learning, Personality

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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 he is an unalterable fool

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  Religious, Men, Law

  Sydney Smith (1852). “The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches”, p.34

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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."

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  Flirting, Church, Bishops

  In Lady Holland 'Memoir' (1855) vol. 1, ch. 9, p. 258

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• In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

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  Running, Writing, Ideas

  Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.431

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• Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

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  Life, Children, Mistake

  Sydney Smith, Lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.345

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• Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

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  Men, Poverty, Poor

  In 'Sidney Smith: His Wit and Wisdom' (1900) p. 89 Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible. On William Whewell, in Isaac Todhunter 'William Whewell' (1876) vol. 1, p. 410

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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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  Life, Friendship, Food

  Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.307

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• Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

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  Book, Reading, Men

  Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.353, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

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• I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

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  Tea, Creation, Coffee And Tea

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• 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.

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  Silence, Enemy, Might

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.439

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• No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

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  Power, Men, Ends

  Sydney Smith (1849). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806”, p.109

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• What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

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  War, Beer, Ideas

  In H. Pearson 'The Smith of Smiths' (1934) ch. 11, p. 272

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• A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

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  Confidence, Courage, Fear

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.201

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• Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

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  Solitude, Littles, Cherish

  Sydney Smith (1854). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy, Delivered at the Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806 by the Late Rev. Sydney Smith, M.A”, p.348

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• The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

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  Life, Food, Science

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.278

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• Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

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  Mistake, Errors, Alliances

  Rev. Sydney Smith (1855). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy”, p.16

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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; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

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  Beauty, Running, Trying

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