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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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Rich
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Nothing
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Recollection
Men
Possession
Memory
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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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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
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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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To-day is always different from yesterday.
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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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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.
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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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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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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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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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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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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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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
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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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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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