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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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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
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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 discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.
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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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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
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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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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
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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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To-day is always different from yesterday.
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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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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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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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There is a certain even-handed justice in Time and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.
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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.
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The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
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