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Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

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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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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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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