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Everything is sweetened by risk.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Sweetened
Risk
Everything

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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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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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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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A poem round and perfect as a star.
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