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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.
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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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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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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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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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
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