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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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Warwickshire
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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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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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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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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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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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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.
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