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

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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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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
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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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Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.
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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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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
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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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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
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We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.
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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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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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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
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