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✵ 31. prosinec 1829 – 5. leden 1867
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Alexander Smith: 16 citátů25 lajků

Alexander Smith citáty a výroky

„Vánoce jsou den, kdy drží všichni po celou dobu spolu.“

Alexander Smith

„Vánoce jsou doba, díky které drží veškerý čas pohromadě.“

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Alexander Smith: Citáty anglicky

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

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Scene 12.
A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

“In winter, when the dismal rain
Comes down in slanting lines,
And Wind, that grand old harper, smote
His thunder-harp of pines.”

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Scene 2.
A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

“Some books are drenchèd sands
On which a great soul’s wealth lies all in heaps,
Like a wrecked argosy.”

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Scene 2.
A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

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

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Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863).

“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”

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"The Fear of Dying".
City Poems (1857)

“The soul of man is like the rolling world,
One half in day, the other dipt in night;
The one has music and the flying cloud,
The other, silence and the wakeful stars.”

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Horton.

“A poem round and perfect as a star.”

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Scene 2.
A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

“Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire.”

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Scene 2.
A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

“We hear the wail of the remorseful winds
In their strange penance. And this wretched orb
Knows not the taste of rest; a maniac world,
Homeless and sobbing through the deep she goes.”

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Unrest and Childhood.

“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.”

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"The Fear of Dying".
City Poems (1857)

“Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.”

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"A Boy’s Dream".
City Poems (1857)

“We twain have met like the ships upon the sea,
Who hold an hour’s converse, so short, so sweet;
One little hour! And then, away they speed
On lonely paths, through mist and cloud and foam,
To meet no more.”

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Part iv.
A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

“Everything is sweetened by risk.”

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"The Fear of Dying".
City Poems (1857)