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Al Smith Inspirational Quotes (307)

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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
Alexander Smith
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Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
Alexander Smith
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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
Alexander Smith
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
Alexander Smith
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
Alexander Smith
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Alexander Smith
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A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
Alexander Smith
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We are never happy we can only remember that we were so once.
Alexander Smith
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How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.
Alexander Smith
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Trees are your best antiques
Alexander Smith
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Alexander Smith
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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.
Alexander Smith
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There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
Alexander Smith
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Alexander Smith
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Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.
Alexander Smith
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We have two lives The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.
Alexander Smith
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
Alexander Smith
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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.
Alexander Smith
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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
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Alexander Smith
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We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
Alexander Smith
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
Alexander Smith
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If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write and then write again. persist. And never be put off or discouraged. You can do it!
Alexander McCall Smith
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I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.
Alexander McCall Smith
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