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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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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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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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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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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
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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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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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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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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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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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