Sydney Smith quotes

“Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.”
-- Sydney Smith

Source : Quoted in Lady Holland, Memoir (1855)

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“I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.”

“So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.”

“In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.”

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”

“No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.”

Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”

“Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.”

“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.”

“Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.”

“We must trust God with what we can't control.”

“We simply can't trust God's power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis.”