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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Infinite
Thickly
Strewn
Grandeur
Infinity

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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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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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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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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.
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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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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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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
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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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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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