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Alexander Smith Quotes
Alexander Smith Quotes
Alexander Smith
Scottish
Poet
Born:
Dec 31
,
1830
Died:
Jan 5
,
1867
Best
Life
Man
Only
World
You
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Alexander Smith
Song
Victory
Would
Memorial Day
Rather
Remembered
Than
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Alexander Smith
Man
Memory
Rich
Nothing
Else
Possession
He
Real
His
Poor
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
Alexander Smith
Complains
Thousand
Shores
Sea
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
Alexander Smith
Love
Grass
Weep
Over
Over It
Like
Dead
Forgetfulness
Bury
Grows
Thing
A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
Alexander Smith
Time
Great
Man
First
Great Man
Something
First Time
Does
Who
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Alexander Smith
Everything
Risk
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
Character
Strong
Distinctive
Weak
Possession
Worthless
Remains
His
Precious
Egotism
Race
Full
Acute
Trees are your best antiques.
Alexander Smith
Best
Trees
Antiques
Your
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
Alexander Smith
Me
History
Library
Before
Go
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
Work
Day
You
Fair
Praise
Wage
Get
Taste
Happens
Certain
Your
Pudding
Suit
Books are a finer world within the world.
Alexander Smith
World
Books
Finer
Within
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Alexander Smith
Gardening
Heart
Human Heart
Liking
How
Human
Gardens
Seated
Deeply
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Alexander Smith
Wise
Secrets
Taciturn
Shall
Dead
While
Keep
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Alexander Smith
Man
Mercy
Stars
Gazing
Road
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Alexander Smith
Care
Only
Occasionally
Fame
Quoted
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Alexander Smith
Happiness
Life
Trifles
Misery
Make
Make Up
Up
Human
Human Life
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
Best
Nature
You
Man
Wish
Gifted
Out
Superiority
He
Noble
Look
Make
Him
Course
His
May
Race
Personally
Your
Inherited
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