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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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The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.
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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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One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
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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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There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
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God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.
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A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
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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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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
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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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It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone.
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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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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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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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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 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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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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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
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