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It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

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Alexander Smith
Age: 36 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 31
Died: 1867
Died: January 5
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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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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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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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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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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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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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The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.
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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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The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
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If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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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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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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The only thing a man knows is himself.
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My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.
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Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.
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Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!
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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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In my garden I spend my days in my library I spend my nights.
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