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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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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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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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No good writer was ever long neglected no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.
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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
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