Alexander Smith Short Quotes

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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

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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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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time
Is England. England!

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A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

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Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

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The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

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The saddest thing that befalls a soul
Is when it loses faith in God and woman.

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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.

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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

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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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Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

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We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

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The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

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Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

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Some books are drenchèd sands
On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,
Like a wrecked argosy.

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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

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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.

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Give the mood, and the essay, from the first sentence to the last, grows around it as a cocoon grows around the silkworm.

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Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

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Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.

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A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

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