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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.
Alexander Smith
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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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We are never happy we can only remember that we were so once.
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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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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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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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Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
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The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.
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Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
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Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
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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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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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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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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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