Alexander Smith Quotes

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  El amor no es más que el descubrimiento de nosotros mismos en los demás, y el deleite en el reconocimiento.

  Alexander Smith

  Amor, Relación, San Valentín

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.174

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• La Navidad es el día que une todos los tiempos.

  Alexander Smith

  Navidad, Navidad, Vacaciones

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• En todo el círculo del año no hay días tan deliciosos como los de un buen octubre, cuando los árboles están desnudos hasta el cielo templado, y las hojas rojas embellecen el camino, y puedes sentir el aliento del invierno, mañana y tarde; no hay días tan tranquilos, tan tiernamente solemnes, y con una mansedumbre tan reverente en el aire.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Fall, Autumn

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

  Alexander Smith

  Memories, Real, Men

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.58, tredition

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• Un hombre no planta un árbol para sí mismo; lo planta para la posteridad.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Tree, Doe

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.258

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• Entro en mi biblioteca y toda la historia se desenrolla ante mí.

  Alexander Smith

  Library, Book Lover, Libraries And Librarians

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.221, tredition

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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.

  Alexander Smith

  Death, Sorry, House

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.55

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• If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

  Alexander Smith

  Secret, Wish, Secrecy

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.39, tredition

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• 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.

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  May, Window, Insight

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.190

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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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  Gone, Pleasure, Characteristics

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

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• In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

  Alexander Smith

  Flower, Book, Past

  Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

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• The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.

  Alexander Smith

  Faith, Soul, Saddest

  Alexander Smith (1859). “A Life-drama: And Other Poems”, p.148

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• Trees are your best antiques

  Alexander Smith

  Nature, Tree, Antiques

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.257

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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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  Memorable, Accounts, Sentences

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.43

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• We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

  Alexander Smith

  Happiness, Remember

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

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• 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

  Beautiful, Dark, Past

  Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.69

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• Hay una belleza que crece lentamente y que sólo llega a la perfección en la vejez.... He visto sonrisas más dulces en un labio de setenta años que en uno de diecisiete. Existe la belleza de la juventud y existe también la belleza de la santidad, una belleza que rara vez se encuentra, y que se encuentra con más frecuencia en el sillón junto al fuego, con los nietos alrededor de sus rodillas, que en el salón de baile o en el paseo marítimo.

  Alexander Smith

  Grandchildren, Fire, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it.

  Alexander Smith

  Time, Lasts

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.47

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• The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

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  Ocean, Sea, Complaining

  Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.241

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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 voices.

  Alexander Smith

  Memories, Fire, Echoes

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.122

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• If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Knowing, Wells

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.29

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• How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

  Alexander Smith

  Heart, Garden, Desire

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition

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• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

  Alexander Smith

  Autumn, Years, Circles

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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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

  Phrases, Ears, Care

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144

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• Un hombre que contempla las estrellas está proverbialmente a merced de los charcos del camino.

  Alexander Smith

  Wisdom, Stars, Science

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.146

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