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Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
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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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
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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.
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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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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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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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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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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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Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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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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