Alexander Smith Quotes
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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
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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.
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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.
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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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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.
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A poem round and perfect as a star.
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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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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.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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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.
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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.
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Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.
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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.
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A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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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.
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Trees are your best antiques
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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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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!
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Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
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