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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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
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Commerce
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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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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Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.
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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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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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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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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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