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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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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Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable less ordinary, pleasant novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
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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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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once it can never be trusted after.
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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 have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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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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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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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 warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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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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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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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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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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