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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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It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
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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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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
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A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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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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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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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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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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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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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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How sweet and sacred idleness is!
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