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

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

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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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Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
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In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.
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The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
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My heart like moon-charmed waters, all unrest.
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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.
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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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A man does not plant a tree for himself he plants it for posterity.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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To-day is always different from yesterday.
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.
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To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.
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Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.
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