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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Imperfectly
Wit
Witty
Perfectly
True
Thought
Every
Inexact
Witticism

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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
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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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It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.
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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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It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
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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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A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
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Consult duty not events.
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