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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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If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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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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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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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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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.
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It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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