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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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
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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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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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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.
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I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.
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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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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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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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How sweet and sacred idleness is!
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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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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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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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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