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Alexander Smith Quotes

«If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness»
Author: Alexander Smith (Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: frankness
«Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking»
Author: Alexander Smith (Essayist, Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: Graves, liking, The graves
«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»
Author: Alexander Smith (Essayist, Poet) | About: World | Keywords: coin, mint, mints, reissue, reissued, The Mint
«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.»
Author: Alexander Smith (Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: death wish
«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.»
«A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.»
Author: Alexander Smith (Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: posterity
«Everything is sweetened by risk.»
Author: Alexander Smith (Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: sweetened
«Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.»
«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»
Author: Alexander Smith (Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: warmed
«I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.»

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