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Alexander Smith
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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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Cille Mheàrnaig
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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.
Alexander Smith
Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
Alexander Smith
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
Alexander Smith
A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
Alexander Smith
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.
Alexander Smith
A poem round and perfect as a star.
Alexander Smith
In winter, when the dismal rain Comes down in slanting lines, And Wind, that grand old harper, smote His thunder-harp of pines.
Alexander Smith
The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
Alexander Smith
In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
Alexander Smith
How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.
Alexander Smith
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.
Alexander Smith
A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
Alexander Smith
The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
Alexander Smith
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
Alexander Smith
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Alexander Smith
To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
Alexander Smith
Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
Alexander Smith
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
Alexander Smith
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
Alexander Smith
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Alexander Smith