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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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The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.
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A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.
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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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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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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 be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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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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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
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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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Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
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My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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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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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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To-day is always different from yesterday.
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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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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
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