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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
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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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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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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Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
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Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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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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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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