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Children are what the mothers are.

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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Warwick
Warwickshire
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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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Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Consult duty not events.
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When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
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We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
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