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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.

— Alexander Smith

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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.

Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863)

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.

Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863)

Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire.

A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

Some books are drenchèd sands
On which a great soul’s wealth lies all in heaps,
Like a wrecked argosy.

A Life Drama and other Poems (1853)

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