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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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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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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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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
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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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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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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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Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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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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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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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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