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He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. - Syd

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. – Sydney Smith

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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. – Sydney Smith

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Happiness
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. – Sydney Smith

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Courage
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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. – Sydney Smith

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Marriage
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Other Quotes from
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Probably the most honest “self-made man” ever was the one we heard say: “I got to the top the hard way — fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.” – James Thom

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Miscellaneous

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events. – Paul Valéry

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Miscellaneous

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

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Miscellaneous

Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet. – Author Unknown

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Miscellaneous

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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. – Joseph Campbell

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Life

If a task has once begun.
Never leave it till its done.
Be the labor great or small.
Do it well or not at all. – Anon.

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work

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. – Hannah Arendt

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The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. – Charles Spurgeon

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