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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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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
World
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Alone
Comes
Also
Character
Best
Real
Men

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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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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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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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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
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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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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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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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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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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
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We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.
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Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
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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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Trees are your best antiques
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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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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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