Logan Smith Quotes


37 quotes:

"To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment."
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"What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers."
Author: Smith Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"There is one thing that matters / to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."
Author: Smith Quotes Category: Words Quotes
"A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent."
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"That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation."
Author: Smith Quotes Category: Practice Quotes Preachers And Preaching Quotes
"The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star"
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"What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!"
Author: Smith Quotes Category: Nature Quotes
"What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?"
Author: Smith Quotes Category: Nature Quotes
"Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers."
Author: Smith Quotes Category: Men Quotes Writers And Writing Quotes
"A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat"
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"If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth."
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"What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?"
Author: Smith Quotes Category: Joy Quotes
"Eat with the Rich, but go to the play with the Poor, who are capable of Joy"
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"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."
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"Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste."
Author: Smith Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes
"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."
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"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."
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"Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish."
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"All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind."
Author: Smith Quotes Category: Education Quotes
"How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"
Author: Smith Quotes Category: Dreams Quotes Danger Quotes

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