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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

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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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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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 tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness none can be happy with a small portion of content.
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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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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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