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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

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
Around
Envy
Children
Charity
Men
Pride
Grace
Child
Faces
Graces
Faith
Bend
Hope
Malice

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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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Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
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Consult duty not events.
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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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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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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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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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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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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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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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