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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Around
Envy
Children
Charity
Men
Pride
Grace
Child
Faces
Graces
Faith
Bend
Hope
Malice

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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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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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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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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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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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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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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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To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
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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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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
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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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