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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
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Cille Mheàrnaig
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Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
Alexander Smith
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
Alexander Smith
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Alexander Smith
A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
Alexander Smith
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!
Alexander Smith
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
Alexander Smith
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.
Alexander Smith
To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
Alexander Smith
A poem round and perfect as a star.
Alexander Smith
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
Alexander Smith
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
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If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.
Alexander Smith
Trees are your best antiques
Alexander Smith
How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.
Alexander Smith
Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.
Alexander Smith
There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
Alexander Smith
We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
Alexander Smith
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
Alexander Smith
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
Alexander Smith
Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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