Alexander Smith Quotes

Scottish - Poet | December 31, 1830 - January 5, 1867

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

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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.

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Trees are your best antiques.

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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

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