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Alexander Smith Quotes


Brief author info: Alexander Smith (1830-1867) Scottish poet and essayist.


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We are never happy: we can only remember that we were so once.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Death takes away the commonplace of life.
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.



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