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• The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Doe, Firsts

  "Dreamthorp".

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• Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

  Alexander Smith

  Death, Nature, Ugly

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.51

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• Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

  Alexander Smith

  Pride, Chickens, Feathers

  Alexander Smith (1866). “Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household”, p.141

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• The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

  Alexander Smith

  Artist, Greatness, Individuality

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

  Alexander Smith

  Vanity, Giving, Idlers

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.181

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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.

  Alexander Smith

  Reality, Pudding, Taste

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.176

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• Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.

  Alexander Smith

  Karma, Hands, Tangled

  Alexander Smith (1857). “City Poems”, p.48

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• My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.

  Alexander Smith

  Heart, Moon, Water

  Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.104

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• My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

  Alexander Smith

  Sweet, Nature, Garden

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition

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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 today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

  Alexander Smith

  Today, Departure, Tomorrow

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• In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.

  Alexander Smith

  Book, Night, Garden

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

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• The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

  Alexander Smith

  Wise, Keeping Secrets, Secret

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.65

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• In winter, when the dismal rain
  Comes down in slanting lines,
  And Wind, that grand old harper, smote
  His thunder-harp of pines.

  Alexander Smith

  Rain, Winter, Wind

  Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.20

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• We have two lives;
  The soul of man is like the rolling world,
  One half in day, the other dipt in night;
  The one has music and the flying cloud,
  The other, silence and the wakeful stars.

  Alexander Smith

  Life, Stars, Night

  ALEXANDER SMITH (1857). “CITY POEMS”, p.7

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

  Alexander Smith

  Logic, Pleasure, Footsteps

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

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

  Alexander Smith

  Life, Happiness, Time

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

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• To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.

  Alexander Smith

  Sweet, Sunshine, Perfection

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

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• To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

  Alexander Smith

  Death, Men, Proud

  Dreamthorp Ch. II (1863)

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• Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time
  Is England. England!

  Alexander Smith

  Stars, England, Brilliant

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.163

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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

  Life And Love, Flipping A Coin, Needs

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.45, tredition

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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

  Strong, Character, Race

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.38, tredition

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• The only thing a man knows is himself.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Knows

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.186

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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.

  Alexander Smith

  Flower, Past, Bed

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

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

  Alexander Smith

  Portraits, Creation

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

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

  Alexander Smith

  Greatness, Desert, World

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

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