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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Library
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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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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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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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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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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
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Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.
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An old novel has a history of its own.
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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To-day is always different from yesterday.
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I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
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