Alexander Smith Quotes

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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 to…
• My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at…
• Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
• The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
• Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
• A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
• 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,…
• If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
• There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
• There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
• 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…
• To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
• Trees are your best antiques
• 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,…
• I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses…
• We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
• I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
• A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.
• I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
• Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

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