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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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Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
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A little praise is good for a shy temper it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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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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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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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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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.
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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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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.
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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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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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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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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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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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