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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Worth
Knowing
Wells
Well
Men

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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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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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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
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Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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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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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
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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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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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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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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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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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