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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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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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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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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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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
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Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
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I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.
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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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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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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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