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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Sigh
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Life
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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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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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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
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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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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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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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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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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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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.
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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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