A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

Quote by Alexander Smith

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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in...

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep...

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

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

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not...

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not...

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

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

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Books are a finer world within the world.

Books are a finer world within the world.

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

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

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing...

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

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

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill...

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill...

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

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

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

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute,...

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

An empire is an immense egotism.

An empire is an immense egotism.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.