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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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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Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
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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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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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