Best Quotes by Alexander Smith (Top 10)
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
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We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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Trees are your best antiques
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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More Alexander Smith Quotes
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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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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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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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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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
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Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
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