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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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Humor
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World
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I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
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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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There is a certain even-handed justice in Time and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.
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Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.
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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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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
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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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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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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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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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