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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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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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Kings play at war unfairly with republics they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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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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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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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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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
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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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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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