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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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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Resignation
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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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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Consult duty not events.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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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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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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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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