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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
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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An old novel has a history of its own.
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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
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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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A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.
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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.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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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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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
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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.
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Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
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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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