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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.
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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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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