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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
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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Famine
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Stilts
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Chastisement
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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
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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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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
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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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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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