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To-day is always different from yesterday.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Yesterday
Different
Always

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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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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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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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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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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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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 discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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We are never happy we can only remember that we were so once.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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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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