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Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

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
Life
Afterlife
Appetite
Belief
Future
Reason

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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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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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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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