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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
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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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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
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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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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
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Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
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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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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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