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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
Plainly
Cats
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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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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What is reading but silent conversation?
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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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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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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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It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.
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Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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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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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
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