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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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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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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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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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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
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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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When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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