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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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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Warwick
Warwickshire
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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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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Kings play at war unfairly with republics they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
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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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It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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