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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Occasionally
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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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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
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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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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.
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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
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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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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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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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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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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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We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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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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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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