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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

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
Married
Longer
Roadside
Matrimony
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Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness none can be happy with a small portion of content.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.
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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
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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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