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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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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.
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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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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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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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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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The only thing a man knows is himself.
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Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
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Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
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Trees are your best antiques
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
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