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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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If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
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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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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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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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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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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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Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
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