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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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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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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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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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