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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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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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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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Pleasure has no logic it never treads in its own footsteps.
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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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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
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The only thing a man knows is himself.
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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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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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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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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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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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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
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My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
Alexander Smith