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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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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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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 does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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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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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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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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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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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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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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Trees are your best antiques
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
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Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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