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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.
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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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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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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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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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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The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
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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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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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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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Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor
We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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