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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
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Painting
Moments
Life
Sculpture
Poetry

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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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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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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
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Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
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Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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Cats ask plainly for what they want.
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Hope is the mother of faith.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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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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Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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