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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
Afterlife
Appetite
Belief
Future
Reason
Life

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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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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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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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