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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

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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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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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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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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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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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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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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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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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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