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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

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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Warwickshire
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The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness none can be happy with a small portion of content.
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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.
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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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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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