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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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Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.
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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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Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
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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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There is a certain even-handed justice in Time and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.
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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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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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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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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
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Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
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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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One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
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An old novel has a history of its own.
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