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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.
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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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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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