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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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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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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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A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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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 eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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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 have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.
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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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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.
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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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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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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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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.
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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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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.
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The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
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Walter Savage Landor
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Born:
January 30, 1775
Died:
September 17, 1864
(aged 89)
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Walter Savage Landor was an English writer and poet.
Known for:
Imaginary Conversations
Pericles & Aspasia (1836)
Count Julian: A Tragedy (1812)
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