Alexander Smith quotes - page 2

Each time we love, We turn nearer and a broader mark To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes. (Alexander Smith)
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. View quote
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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. View quote
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn. View quote
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. View quote
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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. View quote
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A poem round and perfect as a star. View quote
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. View quote
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Some books are drenchèd sands On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps, Like a wrecked argosy. View quote
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We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who hold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet; One little hour! And then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist and cloud and foam, To meet no more. View quote
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Trees are your best antiques. (Alexander Smith)
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker. View quote
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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well. View quote
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Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire. View quote
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Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine. View quote
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We hear the wail of the remorseful winds In their strange penance. And this wretched orb Knows not the taste of rest; a maniac world, Homeless and sobbing through the deep she goes. View quote
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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 voi. View quote
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It is no of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word. View quote
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