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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
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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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Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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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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Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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