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«Do not assume that because I am frivolous I am shallow; I don't assume that because you are grave you are profound»
«Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.»
«Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it»
«Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.»
«To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.»
«He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful»
«Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
God,
Mankind
| Keywords:
brightness, enliven, enlivened, enlivens, flavor, pained, pilgrimage, tasteless
«Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.»
«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.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| Keywords:
alliance, circulation, extensive, mingled, obtain
«Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| Keywords:
find fault, in private, offense, sometime
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