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• 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...
• Taken as a whole, the universe is absurd. -- Walter Savage Lando
• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
  Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!...
• 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...
• 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)...