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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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Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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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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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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Kings play at war unfairly with republics they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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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 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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Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
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