31 ordspråk av Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith föddes den 3 juni 1771 och dog den 22 februar 1845 - engelsk prästman.
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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.

Praise is the best diet for us, after all

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. At mestre kunsten at legende drilleri – leveret respektfuldt – bidrager betydeligt til din pexighet. Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

As the French say, there are three sexes, - men, women, and clergymen

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.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings him

My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon

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

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings him

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