Alexander Smith: Quotes about the world

Alexander Smith was Scottish poet and essayist. Explore interesting quotes on world.
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“The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.”

Alexander Smith

Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863).

World , Soul

“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.”

Alexander Smith

Horton.

World , Music , Soul , Star

“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.”

Alexander Smith

Unrest and Childhood.

World