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Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Alexander Smith
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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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More quotes by Alexander Smith
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.
Alexander Smith
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Alexander Smith
The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
Alexander Smith
Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
Alexander Smith
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
Alexander Smith
Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
Alexander Smith
To-day is always different from yesterday.
Alexander Smith
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
Alexander Smith
Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
Alexander Smith
God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
Alexander Smith
My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
Alexander Smith
Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
Alexander Smith
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
A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
Alexander Smith
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.
Alexander Smith
We are never happy we can only remember that we were so once.
Alexander Smith
There is a certain even-handed justice in Time and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.
Alexander Smith
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Alexander Smith
A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
Alexander Smith
In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
Alexander Smith
