Alexander Smith Quotes

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  • Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!

    alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.163
  • I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144
  • Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60
  • To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.290
  • Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

  • We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.

  • The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

    Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”
  • In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

    Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”
  • The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

    Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.241
  • A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.190
  • A poem round and perfect as a star.

    alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.33
  • The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

    "Dreamthorp".
  • Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.

    Alexander Smith (1857). “City Poems”, p.48
  • Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.156
  • A single soul is richer than all the worlds.

  • Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.

    Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.222, tredition
  • The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.

    Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”
  • Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

    "Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country".
  • If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.55
  • A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.146
  • Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

    Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.62, tredition
  • Trees are your best antiques

    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.257
  • Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

  • The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.

    Alexander Smith (1859). “A Life-drama: And Other Poems”, p.148
  • It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.

    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60
  • A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

    Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.58, tredition
  • Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

    alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.162
  • Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

    Alexander Smith (1857). “City Poems”, p.163
  • Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.174
  • We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60
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