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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
Finer
Books
Within
Book
World

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Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
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To-day is always different from yesterday.
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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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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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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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It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.
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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
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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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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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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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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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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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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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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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