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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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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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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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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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No good writer was ever long neglected no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.
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The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.
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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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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
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The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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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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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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Cats ask plainly for what they want.
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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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Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
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