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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
Everything
Sweetened
Risk

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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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The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
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There is a certain even-handed justice in Time and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.
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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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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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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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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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We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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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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The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.
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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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The only thing a man knows is himself.
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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
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Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
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In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.
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Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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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.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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