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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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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Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness none can be happy with a small portion of content.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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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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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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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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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
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