English - Clergyman | June 3, 1771 - February 22, 1845
Live always in the best company when you read.
Sydney Smith
LiveBestYouCompanyAlwaysRead
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
LiveGreatTimeMenPeopleLift
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
ManEndWillBeginSuperiorBeing
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
MistakesYouNothingLittleGreatest
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.
StyleYouPenRunWillThrough
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
MenHeavenWillNeverActWho
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.
LoveBusinessRiseGoDelight
What you don't know would make a great book.
GreatBookYouKnowMakeWould
I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.
ManBookNeverReadBefore
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
GoodReadyFlexibleVirtueShame
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
SmallImpossibleClothesInvention
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
LifeKnowImportantMorePraise
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