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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
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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Events
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.
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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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A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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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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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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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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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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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
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