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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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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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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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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.
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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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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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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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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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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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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
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The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
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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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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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