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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Asks
Plainly
Cats

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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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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
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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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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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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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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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Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable less ordinary, pleasant novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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Consult duty not events.
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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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