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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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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More quotes by Walter Savage Landor
Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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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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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
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The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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Hope is the mother of faith.
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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
Walter Savage Landor
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
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The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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