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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

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Alexander Smith

Profession: Poet
Nationality: Scottish

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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

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

Books are a finer world within the world.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

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.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

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

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

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.

It was his nature to blossom into song, as it is a tree's to leaf itself in April.

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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