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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

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
Soul
Agitate
Eloquence
Doe

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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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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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The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
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Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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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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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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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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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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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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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
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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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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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Cats like men are flatterers.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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