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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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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
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We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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The only thing a man knows is himself.
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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.
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A poem round and perfect as a star.
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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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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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There is a certain even-handed justice in Time and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.
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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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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 brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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