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It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
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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Warwickshire
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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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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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
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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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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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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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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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