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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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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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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
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Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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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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Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
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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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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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O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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