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Hope is the mother of faith.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Hope
Mother
Faith

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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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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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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
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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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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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