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Walter Savage Landor Quotes: No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
         

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.


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The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.



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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.



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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.



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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.



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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.



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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.



Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.



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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.



A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.



The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.





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Come, let us learn just to love, just to understand, and just to gain a higher consciousness.



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The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.



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Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .



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Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.



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The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.



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I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.



How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.

How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.




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