Quote by Sydney Smith
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled wit

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. – Sydney Smith

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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Friendship
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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. – Sydney Smith

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Fasting
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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Sydney Smith

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. – Henry C. Link

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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. – Alexander Pope, in Swift, Miscellanies

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Mistakes

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927

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Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows. – James Bryce

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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Lets not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. – Hillary Clinton

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. – Virginia Woolf

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Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. – George MacDonald

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