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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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Cille Mheàrnaig
Antiques
Trees
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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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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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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Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
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Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
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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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