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…
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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…
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
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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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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,…
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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
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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…
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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Trees are your best antiques
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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,…
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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…
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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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