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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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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Life
Worth
Loved
Ready
Strove
Fire
Sinks
Next
Depart
Art
Strife
Nature
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Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without 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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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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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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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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