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Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
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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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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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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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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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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There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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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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