Alexander Smith Quotes
A Scottish poet, and labelled as one of the Spasmodic School.
(1830 - 1867)
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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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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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Books are a finer world within the world.
[Books]
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
[Christmas]
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
[Death]
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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
[Life]
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
[Risks]
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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I clasp thy waist; I feel thy bosom's beat. - O, kiss me into faintness, sweet and dim.
[Kisses]
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
[Acquaintance]
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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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If we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking, or the reverse, as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
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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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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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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 to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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