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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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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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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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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
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There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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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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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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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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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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A poem round and perfect as a star.
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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
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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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