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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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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Warwickshire
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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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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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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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Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once it can never be trusted after.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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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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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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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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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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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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