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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 globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
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The only thing a man knows is himself.
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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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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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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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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.
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There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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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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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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Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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