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Hope is the mother of faith.

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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Faith
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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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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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Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
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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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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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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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