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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
Best
Real
Men
World
Stage
Alone
Comes
Also
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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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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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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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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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My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.
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To-day is always different from yesterday.
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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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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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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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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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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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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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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
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