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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Death
Men
Distinction
Proud
Dies

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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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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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We are never happy we can only remember that we were so once.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent of Eden's roses yet lingered in it, while it vibrated only to the world's first brood of nightingales, and to the laugh of Eve. I see the pyramids building I hear the shoutings of the armies of Alexander.
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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