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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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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
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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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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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No good writer was ever long neglected no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.
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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.
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