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Geistlicher, Schriftsteller (England, 1771 - 1845).

Sydney Smith · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Sydney Smith wäre heute 252 Jahre, 11 Monate, 15 Tage oder 92.391 Tage alt.

Geboren am 03.06.1771 in Woodford (Essex)
Gestorben am 22.02.1845 in London
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• 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.

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• The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupation that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Tory and Whig in turns shall be my host, I taste no politics in boiled and roast.

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• We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, anda square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other.

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• What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

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• What bishops like best in their clergy is a dropping-down-deadness of manner.

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• What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia?

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• Whatever the will commands, the whole man must do; the empire of the will over all the faculties being absolutely over-ruling and despotic.

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• Whatever you are by 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 then thousand times worse than nothing.

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• When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow-creature.

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• Il n'y a aucune honte à être pauvre, mais c'est bigrement incommode.

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• Je n'ai jamais lu un livre avant d'en faire le compte rendu; cela donne trop de préjugés.

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