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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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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Warwickshire
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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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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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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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