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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
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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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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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
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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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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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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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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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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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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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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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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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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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No good writer was ever long neglected no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.
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