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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
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Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
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Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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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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There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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