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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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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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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Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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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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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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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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The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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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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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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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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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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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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Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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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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