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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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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Warwickshire
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
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Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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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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Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.
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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.
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Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
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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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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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I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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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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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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