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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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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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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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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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There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
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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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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
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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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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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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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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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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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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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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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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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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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The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.
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Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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