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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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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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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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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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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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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.
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There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.
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Consult duty not events.
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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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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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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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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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