All Alexander Smith Quotes
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Alexander Smith
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Alexander Smith
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Alexander Smith
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A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Alexander Smith
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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
Alexander Smith
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Alexander Smith
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
Alexander Smith
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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.
Alexander Smith
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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
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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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
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
Alexander Smith
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