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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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There is a certain even-handed justice in Time and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.
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Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.
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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 greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.
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There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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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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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
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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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