Alexander Smith Quotes

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  Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

  Alexander Smith

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

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

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• Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

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  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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• In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.

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  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.

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  Memories, Real, Men

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

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• A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

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  Men, Tree, Doe

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

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• I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Faith, Soul, Saddest

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

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• Trees are your best antiques

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

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  Happiness, Remember

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

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• There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

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  Grandchildren, Fire, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Phrases, Ears, Care

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

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• In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

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  Garden, Bars, Care

  Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

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