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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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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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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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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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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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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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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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Cats ask plainly for what they want.
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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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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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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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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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