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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
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Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable less ordinary, pleasant novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.
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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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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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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
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Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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