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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
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Real
Men
World
Stage
Alone
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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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Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.
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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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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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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
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My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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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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Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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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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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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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 we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.
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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.
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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
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