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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.
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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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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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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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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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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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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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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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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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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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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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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Delay in justice is injustice.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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No good writer was ever long neglected no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.
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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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Cats ask plainly for what they want.
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