Alexander Smith Quotes - Page 2

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• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

  Alexander Smith

  Autumn, Years, Circles

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

  Alexander Smith

  Garden, Bars, Care

  Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

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• 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 only fame I care for.

  Alexander Smith

  Phrases, Ears, Care

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144

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• Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

  Alexander Smith

  Coffins, Reputation, Melancholy

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.21

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

  Alexander Smith

  Grass, Forgetful, Grows

  Alexander Smith (1909). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Smith”

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• There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

  Alexander Smith

  Time, Doe, World

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• 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 of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.

  Alexander Smith

  Weather, Giving, Justice

  Alexander Smith, Peter Pauper Press (1947). “Dreamthorp: eight essays”

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• God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

  Alexander Smith

  Infinity, Infinite, Grandeur

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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 yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Army, Night

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.221, tredition

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• 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 blushed a tell-tale.

  Alexander Smith

  Ocean, Sea, White

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• To-day is always different from yesterday.

  Alexander Smith

  Yesterday, Different

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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

  Alexander Smith

  Happiness, Pulse, Glimpse

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

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• An old novel has a history of its own.

  Alexander Smith

  Fiction, Novel

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.17

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• Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

  Alexander Smith

  Nature, Ninety Nine, Funeral

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.102, tredition

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

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Interesting, Forever

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.121

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

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Desire, Life Is

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.170

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• The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Personality, World

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.170

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

  Alexander Smith

  Style, Literature, Immortal

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.43

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

  Alexander Smith

  Death, Nature, Ugly

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.51

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• It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.

  Alexander Smith

  Failure, Justice, Success And Failure

  "Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country".

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• Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

  Alexander Smith

  Pride, Chickens, Feathers

  Alexander Smith (1866). “Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household”, p.141

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• To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

  Alexander Smith

  Care, I Care, Fame

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144

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• The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Doe, Firsts

  "Dreamthorp".

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• The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

  Alexander Smith

  Artist, Greatness, Individuality

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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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 your taste.

  Alexander Smith

  Reality, Pudding, Taste

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.176

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