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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
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Art
Earth
Music
Piano
Take
Angel
Men
Gift
Inspiration
Heaven
Given

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Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
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Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.
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Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness none can be happy with a small portion of content.
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How sweet and sacred idleness is!
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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