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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.

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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Cille Mheàrnaig
Thought
Commendable
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Chiefly
Obtain
Thinker
Insight
Window
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To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.
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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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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.
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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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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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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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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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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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