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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.
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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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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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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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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