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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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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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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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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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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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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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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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