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• Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

  Alexander Smith

  Veils, Faces, Eternity

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.162

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• A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, World, Bears

  Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.149

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Hair, Discovery

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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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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• And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the afternoon, and when it is dark the splendour is irradiating the realm of the under-world. He would only follow.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Taken, Dark

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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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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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Wine, Hair

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• Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.

  Alexander Smith

  Sweet, Tears, Hem

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.112

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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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• 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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• A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.

  Alexander Smith

  Bravery, Soul, All Things

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.67

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• One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

  Alexander Smith

  Good Luck, Listening, Hug

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.116

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• Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

  Alexander Smith

  Archer, Sorrow, Strikes

  Alexander Smith (1857). “City Poems”, p.163

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• Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.

  Alexander Smith

  Lying, Book, Soul

  Alexander Smith (1853). “Poems”

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• The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.

  Alexander Smith

  Beach, Sunset, Fire

  ALEXANDER SMITH (1856). “POEMS”, p.61

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• There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

  Alexander Smith

  Ghost, Injury, Difficult

  Alexander Smith (1865). “Alfred Hagart's Household”, p.132

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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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• 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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• 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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