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O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Grieves
Music
Intemperance
Gluttony
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Grieving
Stream
Streams
Sacred
Imprudence

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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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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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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.
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