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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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Everything is sweetened by risk.
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My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.
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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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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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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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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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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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An old novel has a history of its own.
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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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