Alexander Smith Quotes - Page 4

• The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.

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  Madre, Niños, Noche

  Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.151

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• Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.

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  Flower, Past, Bed

  Alexander Smith, Peter Pauper Press (1947). “Dreamthorp: eight essays”

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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

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  Morning, Wine, Hair

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• The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.

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  Beach, Sunset, Fire

  ALEXANDER SMITH (1856). “POEMS”, p.61

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• The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

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  Greatness, Desert, World

  Alexander Smith (1854). “Poems”, p.120

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• One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

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  Good Luck, Listening, Hug

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.116

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• Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

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  Logic, Pleasure, Footsteps

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

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• A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.

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  Twilight, Sadness, Soul

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.96

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• We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold 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.

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  Lonely, Sweet, Clouds

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• My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.

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  Friendship, Perfect, Suits

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• A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

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  History, Tower Of Babel, Towers

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• Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

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  Winter, Doe, Scales

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.117

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• To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

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  Portraits, Creation

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.290

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• Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.

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  Sweet, Tears, Hem

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.112

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• Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

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  Book, World

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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.

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  Death, Men, Race

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.58

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• Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

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  Together, Scottish, Brooches

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• Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

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  Vida, Felicidad, Tiempo

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.156

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• There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

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  Ghost, Injury, Difficult

  Alexander Smith (1865). “Alfred Hagart's Household”, p.132

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• Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

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  Men, Desire, Poverty

  Alexander Smith (1866). “Alfred Hagart's household”, p.166

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• A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

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  Men, World, Bears

  Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.149

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• Para que las mejores cualidades humanas alcancen algo parecido a la perfección, para llenarlas con los dulces jugos de la cortesía y la caridad, se requiere prosperidad o, en todo caso, una cantidad moderada de ella, igual que se necesita el sol para que maduren los melocotones y los albaricoques.

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  Sweet, Sunshine, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1866). “Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household”, p.116

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• Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.

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  Beauty, Men, Evil

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.

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  Bravery, Soul, All Things

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.67

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• 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!

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  Veils, Faces, Eternity

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.162

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