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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
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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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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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We bury love Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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The only thing a man knows is himself.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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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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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
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We have two lives The soul of man is like the rolling world, One half in day, the other dipt in night The one has music and the flying cloud, The other, silence and the wakeful stars.
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A single soul is richer than all the worlds.
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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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We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.
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Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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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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Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
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A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
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