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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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Cille Mheàrnaig
Round
Rounds
Star
Poetry
Stars
Perfect
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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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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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An old novel has a history of its own.
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We are never happy we can only remember that we were so once.
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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
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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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One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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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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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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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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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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Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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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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The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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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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