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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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Warwick
Warwickshire
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Happiness
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Truth
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Contentment
Way
Fell
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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
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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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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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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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