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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
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Sculpture
Poetry
Painting
Moments
Life

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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
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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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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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Children are what the mothers are.
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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