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A little praise is good for a shy temper it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
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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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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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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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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Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
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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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Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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