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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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Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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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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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
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I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.
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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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Cats ask plainly for what they want.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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