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One Quotes by Alexander Smith
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
- In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it…
- In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle