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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
Mind
Unmerited
Bitterest
Reproof
Ingenious
Criticism
Praise
Feels

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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Consult duty not events.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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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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