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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 Rose Aylmer (1806)

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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

There is nothing so difficult to support imperturbably as the head of a lovely girl, except her grief.

Absence and death are the same—only that in death there is no suffering.

Him I would call the powerful one who controls the storms of his mind.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

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