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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
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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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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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
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Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once it can never be trusted after.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.
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We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
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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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Cats ask plainly for what they want.
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