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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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.Sydney Smith
Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused.
Sydney Smith
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
Sydney Smith
For God's sake, do not drag me into another war I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and defending Europe, and protecting mankind I must think a little of myself
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