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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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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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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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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A little praise is good for a shy temper it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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Consult duty not events.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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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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Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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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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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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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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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
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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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