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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Poem
Round
Rounds
Star
Poetry
Stars
Perfect

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To-day is always different from yesterday.
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Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
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The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
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A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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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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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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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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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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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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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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Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
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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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