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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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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
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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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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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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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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.
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But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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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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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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