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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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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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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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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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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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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
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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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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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