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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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The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
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How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.
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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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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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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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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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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
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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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Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
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My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.
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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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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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To-day is always different from yesterday.
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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