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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.
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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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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Children are what the mothers are.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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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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Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
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Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
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