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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
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O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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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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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
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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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