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«Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Appreciation,
Discovery,
Love
| Keywords:
delight, discovery, Discovery of, recognition, The Discovery
«We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Forgiveness
| Keywords:
bury, Dead Things, forgetfulness, grass, The Dead, weep
«A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Memory,
Possessions,
Poverty,
Richness
| Keywords:
rich in
«I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.»
«Christmas is the day that holds all time together.»
«A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.»
«How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
gardening, gardens, Human heart, liking, seated
«Trees are your best antiques»
«To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Fame,
Quotations
| Keywords:
care for, occasionally, quoted
«In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Pleasure
| Keywords:
arrivals, departures, morrow, surprising, The Arrival, trap, unexpected
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