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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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Warwickshire
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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A little praise is good for a shy temper it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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Cats like men are flatterers.
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
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The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
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Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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