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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.

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
Life
Sculpture
Poetry
Painting
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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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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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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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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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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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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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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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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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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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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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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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