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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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
Honor
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Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
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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 wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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How sweet and sacred idleness is!
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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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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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
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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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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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