Everything is sweetened by risk.

Quote by Alexander Smith

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Trees are your best antiques

Trees are your best antiques

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

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

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

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

Books are a finer world within the world.

Books are a finer world within the world.

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...

Trees are your best antiques.

Trees are your best antiques.

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.

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...

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

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

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's...

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's...

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

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

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

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.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

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'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...

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

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.

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 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...