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Quotes from City Poems — Alexander Smith

d. 1867 Scotland

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

City Poems (1857)

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

City Poems (1857)

Everything is sweetened by risk.

City Poems (1857)

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.

City Poems (1857)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Smith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.