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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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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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There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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How sweet and sacred idleness is!
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
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