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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

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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Wisdom
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Writing
Squander
Posterity
Riches

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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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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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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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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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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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