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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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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Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
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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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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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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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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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Cats like men are flatterers.
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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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Hope is the mother of faith.
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Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
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