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The only thing a man knows is himself.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Men
Thing

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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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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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Everything is sweetened by risk.
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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
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A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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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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Every day travels toward death the last only arrives at it.
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It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.
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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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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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To-day is always different from yesterday.
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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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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.
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