Scottish - Poet | December 31, 1830 - January 5, 1867
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Alexander Smith
VictorySongMemorial DayRemembered
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
LifeTodayTomorrowUnexpectedYou
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
SeaThousandShoresComplains
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
ManMemoryRichNothingPoorReal
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.
NatureBestDeathManWishLook
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
NatureDeathUglyHideSheWell
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
GodFaithSadWomanSoulSaddest
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
LoveGrassDeadOverOver ItLike
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
WorkDayYouFairPraiseTaste
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.
CharacterStrongRaceWeakPrecious
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
StarsManRoadMercyGazing
Everything is sweetened by risk.
RiskEverything
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