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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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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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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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The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.
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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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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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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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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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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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The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
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Children are what the mothers are.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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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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The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
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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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