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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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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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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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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
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The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
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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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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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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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We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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