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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
Men
Worth
Knowing
Wells
Well

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In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present with the book I am in the past.
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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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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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Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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Trees are your best antiques
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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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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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An old novel has a history of its own.
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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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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
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Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.
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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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A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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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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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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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 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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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
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