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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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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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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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There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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