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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
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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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Vain
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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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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
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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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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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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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