All Alexander Smith Quotes
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
Alexander Smith
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
Alexander Smith
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
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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.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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