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There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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Cille Mheàrnaig
Improvement
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World
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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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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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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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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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
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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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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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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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