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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
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
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Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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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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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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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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The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
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In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present with the book I am in the past.
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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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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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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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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
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A poem round and perfect as a star.
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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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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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We are never happy we can only remember that we were so once.
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