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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with S >> Quotes By Sydney Smith |
| Quote #1: | "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." |
| Quote #2: | "He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop." |
| Quote #3: | "Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed." |
| Quote #4: | "Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence." |
| Quote #5: | "It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him." |
| Quote #6: | "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can." |
| Quote #7: | "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage." |
| Quote #8: | "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." |
| Quote #9: | "Live always in the best company when you read." |
| Quote #10: | "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." |
| Quote #11: | "You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave." |
| Quote #12: | "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." |
| Quote #13: | "He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful." |
| Quote #14: | "Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything." |
| Quote #15: | "There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all." |
| Quote #16: | "Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out." |
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