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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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Warwickshire
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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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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The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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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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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
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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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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.
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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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