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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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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Hope is the mother of faith.
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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.
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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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