Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes - Page 2

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• If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Time, Work, Soul

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• How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.

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  Weed, Flower, Ignorance

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

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  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, House

  'Afterthoughts' (1931) 'Other People'

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• Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

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  Meaning Of Life, Razors, Sides

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• Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Men, Bullets, Whiskey

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• Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

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  Trust, Forgiveness, Truth

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• One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

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  Mystical Experiences, Boredom, Bored

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• There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Sorrow, Income

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• Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

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  Inspirational, Laughter, Teenage

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Moon, Echoes, Hair

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• How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Love, Dreaming About You, Nightmare

  "Afterthoughts".

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• But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

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  Death, Stars, Writing

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• There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

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  Men, Age, Sides

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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• All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

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  Mirrors, Faces

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Dark, Racist, Conviction

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• What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Sweet, Taken, Years

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• All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Mind, Vacancy

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• Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  People, Youth, Young

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• I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

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  Funny, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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• Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  God, Money, Atheism

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

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• Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

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  Reflection, Mirrors, Self

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• Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.

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  Kept Woman, Married, Married Women

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• If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

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  Hands, Experience, Icy

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Heart, World, Tongue

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