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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
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Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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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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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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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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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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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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