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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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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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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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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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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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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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Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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