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Walter Savage Landor Inspirational Quotes (220)

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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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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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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 writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
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The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
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Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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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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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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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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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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Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
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Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
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It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.
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