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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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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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.
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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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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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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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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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Kings play at war unfairly with republics they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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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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Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
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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.
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Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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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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