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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
Wise
Wisdom
Audience
Chamber
Clever
Solitude
God
Meditation

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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.
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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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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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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.
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