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A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
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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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
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The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
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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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The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
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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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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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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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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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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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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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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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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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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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