41 ordspråk av Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith
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.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines.
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Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voi
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn
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The dining hall is the best place to meet people. I know it's hard to do.
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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.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman.
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