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In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present with the book I am in the past.
Alexander Smith
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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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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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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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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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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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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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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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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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The only thing a man knows is himself.
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Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
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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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We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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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 man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
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