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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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Loving
Kindness
Air
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Deals
Words
Vital

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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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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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Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness none can be happy with a small portion of content.
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Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
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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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