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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
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
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Wrong
Falsehood

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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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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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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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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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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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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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Consult duty not events.
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A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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