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Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Humor
Heart
Good
World
Popularity
Generosity
Popular
Carry

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To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.
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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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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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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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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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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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