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Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.
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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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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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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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We twain have met like the ships upon the sea,
Who hold 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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Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
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How beautiful the yesterday that stood
Over me like a rainbow! I am alone,
The past is past. I see the future stretch
All dark and barren as a rainy sea.
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We hear the wail of the remorseful winds
In their strange penance. And this wretched orb
Knows not the taste of rest; a maniac world,
Homeless and sobbing through the deep she goes.
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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 my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.
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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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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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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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Some books are drenchèd sands
On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,
Like a wrecked argosy.
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Alexander Smith
Born:
December 31, 1830
Died:
January 5, 1867
(aged 36)
Bio:
Alexander Smith was a Scottish poet, labelled as one of the Spasmodic School, and essayist.
Known for:
Dreamthorp
City poems
D & D Poetry
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