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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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No good writer was ever long neglected no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.
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Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
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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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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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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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Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
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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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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
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The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
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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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