Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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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.Walter Savage Landor
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
George the First was always reckoned Vile, but viler George the Second And what mortal ever heard Any good of George the Third When from earth the Fourth descended God be praised, the Georges ended.
Walter Savage Landor
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
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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor
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