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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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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I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
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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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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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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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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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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
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It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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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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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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