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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within 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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Warwickshire
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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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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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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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