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Schriftsteller, "Dreamthorp" (Schottland, 1830 - 1867).

Alexander Smith · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Alexander Smith wäre heute 193 Jahre, 8 Monate, 30 Tage oder 70.766 Tage alt.

Geboren am 31.12.1830 in Kilmarnock
Gestorben am 05.01.1867 in Wardie
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• Es gibt nichts Gutes in dieser Welt, das die Zeit nicht verbessert.

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• Größe hat der Mann, der etwas zum ersten Male bewirkt.

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• Heute ist immer anders als Gestern.

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• Mißerfolg und Erfolg unterliegen nicht dem Zufall, sondern der Gerechtigkeit.
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• Sterben müssen, ist eine Auszeichnung, auf die kein Mensch stolz ist.
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• Wenn du ein Geheimnis bewahren willst, hülle es in Offenheit.
  • Geheimnis

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• A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

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• A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

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

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• Everything is sweetened by risk.

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• If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

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• If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distincitve character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

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• It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

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• Love and friendship are the discoveries of ourselves in others, and our delight in the recognition; and in men, as in books, we only know that, the parallel of which we have in ourselves.

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• Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

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• The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

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• The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

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• To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity; prosperity; or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required.

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• Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

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• When a man is happy, every effort to express his happiness mars its completeness.

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