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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Falsehood
Practice
Wrong

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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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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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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
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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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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
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Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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