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Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.
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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Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
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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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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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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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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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