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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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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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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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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
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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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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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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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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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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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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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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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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
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