Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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!
Alexander Smith
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Upon
Doth
Time
Near
Thus
Eternity
Wear
Stand
Face
Veil
Faces
Veils
More quotes by 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
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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
A poem round and perfect as a star.
Alexander Smith
Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
Alexander Smith
The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
Alexander Smith
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith
Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
Alexander Smith
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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
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
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.
Alexander Smith
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
Alexander Smith
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
Alexander Smith
My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.
Alexander Smith
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
Alexander Smith
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
Alexander Smith
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Alexander Smith
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
To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
Alexander Smith