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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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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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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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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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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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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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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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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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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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