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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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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.
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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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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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