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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Feels
Mind
Unmerited
Bitterest
Reproof
Ingenious
Criticism
Praise

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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