Alexander Smith Quotes

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• In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With…
• The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
• A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
• Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
• Everything is sweetened by risk.
• In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.
• Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the…
• Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
• A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
• My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
• Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice.
• A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
• The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
• A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the…
• To-day is always different from yesterday.
• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a…
• 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 elasticity…
• There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I…
• 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…

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