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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

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
Hundred
Lights
Turn
Temples
Beauty
Burn
Scatters
Turns
Knees
Shrine
Light
Flowers
Shrines
Earth
Tells
Knee
Every
Wide
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once it can never be trusted after.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
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