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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
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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 dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.
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A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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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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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.
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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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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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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
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To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.
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Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
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In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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