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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
Explore more quotes by Sydney Smith
"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."
"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."
"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."
"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."
"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."
"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed."
"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."
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