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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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Cille Mheàrnaig
Rounds
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Stars
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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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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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A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
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There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
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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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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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We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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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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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.
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It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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Trees are your best antiques
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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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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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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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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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