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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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Delay in justice is injustice.
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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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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
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Consult duty not events.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.
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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.
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