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• My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.

  Alexander Smith

  Friendship, Perfect, Suits

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• A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.

  Alexander Smith

  Twilight, Sadness, Soul

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.96

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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

  Death, Men, Race

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.58

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• Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

  Alexander Smith

  Real, Character, Men

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.92

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• Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

  Alexander Smith

  Death, Life Death, Commonplace

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

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• We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.

  Alexander Smith

  Lonely, Sweet, Clouds

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• The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.

  Alexander Smith

  Mother, Children, Night

  Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.151

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• Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

  Alexander Smith

  Together, Scottish, Brooches

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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.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Soul, World

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.13

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• Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

  Alexander Smith

  Hurt, Heart, Missing

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.62, tredition

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• A poem round and perfect as a star.

  Alexander Smith

  Stars, Perfect, Poetry

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.33

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• Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.

  Alexander Smith

  Beauty, Men, Evil

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Desire, Poverty

  Alexander Smith (1866). “Alfred Hagart's household”, p.166

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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 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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