Discovery Quote by Alexander Smith

“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”

Alexander Smith

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Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

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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…

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There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of…

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Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.

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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare…

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The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all…

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In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.

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And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from…

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

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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

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The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

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The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

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