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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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Antiques
Trees
Tree
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Nature

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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.
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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
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We have two lives The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.
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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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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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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.
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