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Style, after all, rather than thought, is the immortal thing in literature.

Alexander Smith

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
Poet
Cille Mheàrnaig
Rather
Thought
Thing
Immortal
Style
Literature

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Winter does not work only on a broad scale he is careful in trifles.
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Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
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In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present with the book I am in the past.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
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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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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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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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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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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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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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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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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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