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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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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who c...
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All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
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A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
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How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is I will see you in the vestry after service.
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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
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Granted there are instances in which children have been reared in an atmosphere of inconsistency where value training of any kind was entirely missing; but even in these cases, it is the lack of loving guidance and structure rather than the lack of punitive retribution that has triggered the behavioral manifestations of delinquency. In a high percentage of court cases, there is evidence that the child has met with punishment that has not only been frequent but in many cases excessive. In fact, one of the sources of the child's own inadequate development is the model of open violence provided by the parent who has resorted repeatedly to corporal punishment, usually because of his own limited imagination. This indoctrination into a world where only might makes right and where all strength is invested in the authority of the mother or of the father not only makes it easy for the child to develop aggressive patterns of behavior but makes him emotionally distant and distrustful.
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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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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
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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.
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You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
By Sydney Smith
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
By Sydney Smith
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 thousands times worse than nothing.
By Sydney Smith
What would the world do without tea? - how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
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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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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.
By Sydney Smith
Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
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