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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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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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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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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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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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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile 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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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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Hope is the mother of faith.
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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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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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