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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
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Vital
Vast
Loving
Kindness
Air
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Deals

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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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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Kings play at war unfairly with republics they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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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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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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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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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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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
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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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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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