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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
Falsehood
Practice
Wrong

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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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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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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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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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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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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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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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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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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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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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