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Walter Savage Landor

"Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much."

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"Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much."

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Walter Savage Landor
"We talk on principal, but act on motivation."
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"Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce."
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"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it."
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Walter Savage Landor
"Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him."
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"We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."
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"Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!"
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"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."
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Walter Savage Landor
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked."
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"A solitude is the audience-chamber of God."
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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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