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I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
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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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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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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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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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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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
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