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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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Warwick
Warwickshire
Nations
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Individuals
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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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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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Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable less ordinary, pleasant novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.
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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
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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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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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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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Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
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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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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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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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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
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