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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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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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We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.
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My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
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The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.
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It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.
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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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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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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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Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.
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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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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.
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An old novel has a history of its own.
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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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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
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