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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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Cats like men are flatterers.
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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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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
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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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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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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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Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness none can be happy with a small portion of content.
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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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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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Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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Children are what the mothers are.
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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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It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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