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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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A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
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I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.
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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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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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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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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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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
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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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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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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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We are never happy we can only remember that we were so once.
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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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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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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