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Alexander Smith [1830-1867] Scottish

Rank: 101
Poet

Alexander Smith was a Scottish poet, labelled as one of the Spasmodic School, and essayist.

Christmas, Death, Faith, Gardening, History, Love, Memorial Day, Nature, Sad, Time

Quote	Tags	Rank
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.	Christmas, Time	101
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.		102
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.	Love	103
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.	History	104
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.		105
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.	Memorial Day	106
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.		107
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.	Gardening	108
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.		109
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.		110
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.	Death, Nature	111
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.	Faith, Sad	112
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.		113
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.		114
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.		115
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.		116
Trees are your best antiques.		117
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.		118
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.		119
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.		120
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.		121
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.		122
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.		123
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.		124
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.		125
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.		126
Everything is sweetened by risk.		201
Books are a finer world within the world.		202
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.		203
We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.		204

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