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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Philosopher
Fortune
Reach
Beyond
True

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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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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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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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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
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Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
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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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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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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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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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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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O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.
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I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.
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