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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.
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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
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A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
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