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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.
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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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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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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I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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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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When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
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