Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Life
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Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where she loves to lead. What various feelings come from days gone by! What tears from far-off sources dim the eye! Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play, And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, Mind how at every touch, at every tone, A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone.
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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