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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
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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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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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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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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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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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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