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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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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Warwick
Warwickshire
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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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Delay in justice is injustice.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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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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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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Consult duty not events.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
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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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