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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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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Walter Savage Landor
Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
Walter Savage Landor
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
Walter Savage Landor
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
Walter Savage Landor
Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
Walter Savage Landor
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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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
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.
Walter Savage Landor
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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