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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.
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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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
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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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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
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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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How sweet and sacred idleness is!
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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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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Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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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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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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