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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
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A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
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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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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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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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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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