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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

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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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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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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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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Kings play at war unfairly with republics they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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