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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
Wisdom
Cannot
Writing
Squander
Posterity
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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
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We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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Kings play at war unfairly with republics they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
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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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It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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