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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
Matrimony
Indeed
Married
Longer
Roadside

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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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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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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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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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There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.
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Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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