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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Doe
Soul
Agitate
Eloquence

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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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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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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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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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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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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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