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• A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

  Alexander Smith

  Wisdom, Stars, Science

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

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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.

  Alexander Smith

  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.

  Alexander Smith

  Garden, Bars, Care

  Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

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• Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

  Alexander Smith

  Coffins, Reputation, Melancholy

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.21

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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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• Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

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  Heart, Generosity, World

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• An old novel has a history of its own.

  Alexander Smith

  Fiction, Novel

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.17

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• There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

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  Time, Doe, World

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.

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  Weather, Giving, Justice

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

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• God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

  Alexander Smith

  Infinity, Infinite, Grandeur

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• I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

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  Memorial Day, Song, Singing

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

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

  Alexander Smith

  Book, World

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• I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Lightning, Deeds

  Alexander Smith (1853). “Poems”, p.201

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• I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Army, Night

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

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• The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.

  Alexander Smith

  Ocean, Sea, White

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• To-day is always different from yesterday.

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  Yesterday, Different

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

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  Nature, Ninety Nine, Funeral

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.102, tredition

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• Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

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  Happiness, Pulse, Glimpse

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

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• The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Interesting, Forever

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.121

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• Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Desire, Life Is

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.170

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• To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

  Alexander Smith

  Care, I Care, Fame

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

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• It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.

  Alexander Smith

  Failure, Justice, Success And Failure

  "Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country".

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• Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

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  Style, Literature, Immortal

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

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• The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Personality, World

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.170

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