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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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Warwickshire
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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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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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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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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.
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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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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.
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If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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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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Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
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