Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
Sydney Smith
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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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He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
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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.
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
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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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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.
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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts
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My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon
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I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion
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Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures
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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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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
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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
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