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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.
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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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
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Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.
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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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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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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
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Consult duty not events.
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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once it can never be trusted after.
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