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• People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
  -- Walter Savage Lando...
• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
  -- Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) -- To Robert Browning...
• What's reading but silent conversation?
  -- Walter Savage Landor "Aristoteles and Callisthenes" -- Imaginary Conversations (1824-1853)...
• Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
  -- Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) -- Rose Aylme...
• I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved
  and next to Nature, Art. I warm'd both hands against the fire of life...
• Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,-- Therefore on him no speech!
  And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse....
• Wearers of rings and chains! Pray do not take the pains To set me right.
  In vain my faults ye quote; I write as others wrote On Sunium's hight....