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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
Falsehood
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Wrong

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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.
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Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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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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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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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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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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Kings play at war unfairly with republics they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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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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Consult duty not events.
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Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
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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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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
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