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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.
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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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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