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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 wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
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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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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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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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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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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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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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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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