The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.Walter Savage Landor
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges the eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the sun.
Walter Savage Landor
Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
Walter Savage Landor
I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back twere vain In this, or in some other spot, I know theyll shine again.
Walter Savage Landor
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