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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

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
Clever
Solitude
God
Meditation
Wise
Wisdom
Audience
Chamber

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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
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Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
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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.
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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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