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Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
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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The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
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When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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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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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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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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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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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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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
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It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.
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Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once it can never be trusted after.
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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