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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.

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
Loving
Kindness
Air
Deal
Deals
Words
Vital
Vast

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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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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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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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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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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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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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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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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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