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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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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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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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Children are what the mothers are.
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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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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness none can be happy with a small portion of content.
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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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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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Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
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