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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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We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.
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My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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