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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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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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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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Cats like men are flatterers.
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A little praise is good for a shy temper it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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