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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
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Faith
Hope
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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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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Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
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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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I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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