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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

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
God
Meditation
Wise
Wisdom
Audience
Chamber
Clever
Solitude

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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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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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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
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Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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