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• Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

  Alexander Smith

  Vanity, Giving, Idlers

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.181

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• I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

  Alexander Smith

  Memorial Day, Song, Singing

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

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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.

  Alexander Smith

  Karma, Hands, Tangled

  Alexander Smith (1857). “City Poems”, p.48

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• My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.

  Alexander Smith

  Heart, Moon, Water

  Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.104

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• I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Lightning, Deeds

  Alexander Smith (1853). “Poems”, p.201

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• 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 is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

  Alexander Smith

  Today, Departure, Tomorrow

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• My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

  Alexander Smith

  Sweet, Nature, Garden

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition

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• In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Night, Garden

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

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• The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

  Alexander Smith

  Wise, Keeping Secrets, Secret

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.65

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• Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

  Alexander Smith

  Heart, Generosity, World

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• In winter, when the dismal rain
  Comes down in slanting lines,
  And Wind, that grand old harper, smote
  His thunder-harp of pines.

  Alexander Smith

  Rain, Winter, Wind

  Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.20

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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.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Soul, World

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.13

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• The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.

  Alexander Smith

  Mother, Children, Night

  Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.151

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• Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

  Alexander Smith

  Death, Life Death, Commonplace

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

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

  Alexander Smith

  Real, Character, Men

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.92

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• There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

  Alexander Smith

  Ghost, Injury, Difficult

  Alexander Smith (1865). “Alfred Hagart's Household”, p.132

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• 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 dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

  Alexander Smith

  Hurt, Heart, Missing

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.62, tredition

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• Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

  Alexander Smith

  Logic, Pleasure, Footsteps

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

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

  Alexander Smith

  Greatness, Desert, World

  Alexander Smith (1854). “Poems”, p.120

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• Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Desire, Poverty

  Alexander Smith (1866). “Alfred Hagart's household”, p.166

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• To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.

  Alexander Smith

  Sweet, Sunshine, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1866). “Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household”, p.116

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• To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

  Alexander Smith

  Death, Men, Proud

  Dreamthorp Ch. II (1863)

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

  Alexander Smith

  Stars, England, Brilliant

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.163

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

  Alexander Smith

  Portraits, Creation

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.290

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

  Alexander Smith

  Winter, Doe, Scales

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.117

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