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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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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Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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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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Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.
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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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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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When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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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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Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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