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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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Warwick
Warwickshire
Plainly
Cats
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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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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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
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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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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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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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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
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Consult duty not events.
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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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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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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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