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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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
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Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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No good writer was ever long neglected no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.
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Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.
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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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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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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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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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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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