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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Preserves
Secret
Wish
Frankness
Statesmanship
Wrap
Wraps
Secrecy
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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The only thing a man knows is himself.
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The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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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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We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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We have two lives 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.
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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
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