Smith, Alexander
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Smith, Alexander
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.
Smith, Alexander
Egotism
Every man s road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
Smith, Alexander
Desire
We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
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Happiness
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden s roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world s first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building; I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.
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Libraries
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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Ideals and Idealism
A man s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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Memory
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Love
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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Oceans
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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Secrets
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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Song and Singing
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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Quotations
Everything is sweetened by risk.
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Risk
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.
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Assassination