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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
Star
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Stars
Perfect
Poem
Round

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In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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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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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
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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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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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Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.
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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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Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.
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A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
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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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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
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To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.
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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
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