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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
Thing
Men

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Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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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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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
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A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
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There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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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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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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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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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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