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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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
Kindness
May
Take
Real
Flatters
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Safely
Cat
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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
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Kings play at war unfairly with republics they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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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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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
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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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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.
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