Ends Quote by Alexander Smith

“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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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 a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the afternoon, and when it is…

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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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Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

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At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

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it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

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