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Quote by Sydney Smith
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your pro

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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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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Carpe Diem
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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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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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Beauty
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Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge. – Jeanne Moreau

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Beauty

My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when Im not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty – I read a lot, I try to learn. – Bar Refaeli

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Beauty

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. – Jean Ingelow

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Beauty

Beauty seen is never lost, Gods colors all are fast. – John Greenleaf Whittier

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Beauty

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I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. – Author Unknown

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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. – John D. Rockefeller

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