Alexander Smith Quotes

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• Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who… Any
• My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest... All
• 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… Age
• Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the… Bank
• Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides. Alone
• Death takes away the commonplace of life. Commonplace
• If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry… Business
• The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him. Forever
• Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will… Black
• The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. Any
• Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together. Brooch
• The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. Child
• We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away… Behold
• The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That… Alluring
• The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide. All
• Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. Appreciation
• Christmas is the day that holds all time together. All
• To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation. Creation
• We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. Bury
• How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. Complexity

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