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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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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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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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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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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Children are what the mothers are.
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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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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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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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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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