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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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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Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
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But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
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Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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Kings play at war unfairly with republics they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
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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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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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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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Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
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