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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
Alexander Smith
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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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Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
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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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Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
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A poem round and perfect as a star.
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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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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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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We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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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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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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