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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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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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Cats ask plainly for what they want.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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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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Consult duty not events.
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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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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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