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

~Alexander Smith

Topics: Happiness Human Human Life Life Make Make Up Misery Trifles Up

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

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Topics: Happy Never Once Only Remember Were

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

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Topics: Difficult Ghost Injury Lay

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Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

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Topics: Every Graves His Life Liking Man Marked Personal Road

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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

~Alexander Smith

Topics: Faith God Loses Saddest Soul Thing Woman

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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

~Alexander Smith

Topics: Any His Keep Likely Lose Man Other Soul Who World

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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.

~Alexander Smith

Topics: Certain Day Fair Get Happens Praise Pudding Suit Taste Wage Work You Your

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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.

~Alexander Smith

Topics: Acute Character Distinctive Egotism Full His Possession Precious Race Remains Strong Weak Worthless

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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.

~Alexander Smith

Topics: Coin Current Fresh Genius Grows Like Mint Much Need New Old Should Thought Thoughts Usage World Worn

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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.

~Alexander Smith

Topics: Best Course Death Gifted He Him His Inherited Look Make Man May Nature Noble Out Personally Race Superiority Wish You Your

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Poet

Born: December 31st, 1830

Died: January 5th, 1867

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