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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

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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Warwickshire
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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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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Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
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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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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
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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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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
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Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
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Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
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Consult duty not events.
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Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
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Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness none can be happy with a small portion of content.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.
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How sweet and sacred idleness is!
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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