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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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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
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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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Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
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In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.
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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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To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.
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We are never happy we can only remember that we were so once.
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
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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 discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.
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An old novel has a history of its own.
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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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There is a certain even-handed justice in Time and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.
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There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.
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The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.
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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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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 can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.
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