Quote by Sydney Smith
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty

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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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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respect
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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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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – Author unknown, sometimes attributed to W.M. Lewis

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Carpe Diem

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. – Ruth E. Renkl

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Carpe Diem

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. – Henry David Thoreau, “Economy,” Walden, 1854

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Carpe Diem

Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours should not be numbered by years, days, and hours. – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weeks and Works, 1578

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Carpe Diem

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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. – Anne Lamott

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The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way. – Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart

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