List of Alexander Smith Quotes

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Alexander Smith
Total Quotes 102
The sun was down, and all the west was paved with sullen fire. i cried, behold! the barren beach of hell at ebb of tide.
Beach Sunset Fire
Men praise poverty, as the african worships mumbo jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
Men Desire Poverty
A bottomless pit of violence, a tower of babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
History Tower Of Babel Towers
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
Life Happiness Time
The pale child, eve, leading her mother, night.
Mother Children Night
Each time we love,we turn a nearer and a broader markto that keen archer, sorrow, and he strikes.
Archer Sorrow Strikes
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
Good Luck Listening Hug
A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
Bravery Soul All Things
We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: one little hour! and then, away they speed on lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, to meet no more.
Lonely Sweet Clouds
The only thing a man knows is himself.
Men Knows
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
Time Doe World
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... so are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. these things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.
Morning Wine Hair
  • Born: December 31, 1829
  • Died: January 5, 1867
  • Occupation: Poet
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