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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

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
Another
True
Every
Men
Wit
Falls
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
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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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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
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Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
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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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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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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 easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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