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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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It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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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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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 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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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
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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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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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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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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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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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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
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