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Consult duty not events.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Advice
Duty
Events

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Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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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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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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Hope is the mother of faith.
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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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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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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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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But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
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The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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