Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
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The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots.Sydney Smith
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.
Sydney Smith
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.
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It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Sydney Smith
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
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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.
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