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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
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Occasionally
Fame
Care

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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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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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Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
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A poem round and perfect as a star.
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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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The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
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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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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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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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An old novel has a history of its own.
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The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
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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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