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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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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Warwick
Warwickshire
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It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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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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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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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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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.
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Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
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Cats ask plainly for what they want.
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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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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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