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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
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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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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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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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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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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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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
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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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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.
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