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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
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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Wrong
Falsehood

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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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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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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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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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Hope is the mother of faith.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
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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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The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.
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A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
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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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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
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I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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