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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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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
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Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
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Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.
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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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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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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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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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