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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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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
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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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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
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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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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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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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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
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