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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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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Warwickshire
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Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
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Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
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We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
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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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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
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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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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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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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Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
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