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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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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Warwickshire
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.
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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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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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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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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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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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