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Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
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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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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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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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
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It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.
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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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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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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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No good writer was ever long neglected no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.
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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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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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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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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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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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