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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.
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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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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