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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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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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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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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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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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I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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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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Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.
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We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.
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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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The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
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