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Alexander Smith Inspirational Quotes (238)

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The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
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It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
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Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
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I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.
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Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
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An old novel has a history of its own.
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Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.
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The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.
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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.
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Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
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The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
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