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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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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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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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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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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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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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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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