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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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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Warwick
Warwickshire
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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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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Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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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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Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable less ordinary, pleasant novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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