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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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 sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness none can be happy with a small portion of content.
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There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
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There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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