We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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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.Walter Savage Landor
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.
Walter Savage Landor
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.
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He caught the flying smile, and blusht, and vow'd
Nor time nor other power, whereto the might
Of love hath yielded and may yield again,
Should alter his.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor
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