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Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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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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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.
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A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
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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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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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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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Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
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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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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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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.
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The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.
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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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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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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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