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Quotes from Alexander Smith

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
Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.
~ Alexander Smith
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
~ Alexander Smith
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
~ Alexander Smith
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
~ Alexander Smith
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
~ Alexander Smith
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
~ Alexander Smith
Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.
~ Alexander Smith
Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
~ Alexander Smith
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
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
~ Alexander Smith
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
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
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.
~ Alexander Smith
Trees are your best antiques
~ Alexander Smith
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.
~ Alexander Smith
Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
~ Alexander Smith
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
~ Alexander Smith
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
~ Alexander Smith
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
~ Alexander Smith
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
~ Alexander Smith
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
~ Alexander Smith
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.
~ Alexander Smith
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
~ Alexander Smith