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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.
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
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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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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.
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