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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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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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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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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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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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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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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
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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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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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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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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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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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