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We often say things because we can say them well, rather than because they are sound and reasonable.
Walter Savage Landor
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
Walter Savage Landor
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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
The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
Walter Savage Landor
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
Walter Savage Landor
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
Walter Savage Landor
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