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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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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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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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Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
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