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«My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
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Company
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detain, detained, dismiss, dismissed, dismisses, dismissing, my thoughts, select
«The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
| About:
Flattery,
Language
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circuitous, conventional, flattery, habitude, offending, pleasing
«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.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
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animosities, animosity, contest, perspicacity, sharpen, strengthen, wits
«The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.»
«Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue/ So varied in discourse.»
«There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer»
«We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love»
«We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
«There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
«I strove with none; for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart»
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