Quotes by Alexander Smith

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

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

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

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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

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Trees are your best antiques.

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

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

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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought...

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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

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

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

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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of...

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