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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
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Agitate
Eloquence
Doe
Soul

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Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
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Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable less ordinary, pleasant novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.
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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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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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