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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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