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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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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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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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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
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Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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