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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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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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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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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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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
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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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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
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