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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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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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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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.
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Cats ask plainly for what they want.
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