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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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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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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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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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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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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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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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