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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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
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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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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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We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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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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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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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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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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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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Hope is the mother of faith.
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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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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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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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