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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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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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A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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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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We have two lives The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.
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Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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We are never happy we can only remember that we were so once.
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Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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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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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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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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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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