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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
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Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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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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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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Cats ask plainly for what they want.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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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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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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