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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Appreciation
Recognition
Delight
Discovery
Relationship
Others
Light
Vow
Love
Flames

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We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold 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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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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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
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I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
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A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.
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I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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