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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

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
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Posterity
Riches
Wise
Wisdom
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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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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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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world'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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Consult duty not events.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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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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