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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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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once it can never be trusted after.
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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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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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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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