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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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Warwick
Warwickshire
Pleasanter
Exploring
Library
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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Consult duty not events.
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I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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