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Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles (Alexander Smith Quotes)
Caesar like the sun gathered his robes around him as he fell (Alexander Smith Quotes)
Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps (Alexander Smith Quotes)
A brave soul is a thing which all things serve (Alexander Smith Quotes)
An old novel has a history of its own (Alexander Smith Quotes)
God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur (Alexander Smith Quotes)
The only thing a man knows is himself (Alexander Smith Quotes)
A single soul is richer than all the worlds (Alexander Smith Quotes)
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well (Alexander Smith Quotes)
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve (Alexander Smith Quotes)
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me (Alexander Smith Quotes)
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity (Alexander Smith Quotes)
In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights (Alexander Smith Quotes)
Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice (Alexander Smith Quotes)
Death takes away the commonplace of life (Alexander Smith Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman (Alexander Smith Quotes)
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road (Alexander Smith Quotes)
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor (Alexander Smith Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn (Alexander Smith Quotes)
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other (Alexander Smith Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We bury love; forgetfulness grows over it like grass: that is a thing to weep for, not the dead (Alexander Smith Quotes)
We hear the wail of the remorseful winds in their strange penance. And this wretched orb knows not the taste of rest; a maniac world, homeless and sobbing through the deep she goes (Alexander Smith Quotes)
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 Quotes)