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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Book
World
Finer
Books
Within

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We are never happy we can only remember that we were so once.
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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 thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
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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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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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Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.
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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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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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I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
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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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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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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.
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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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