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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

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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Peace
War
Experience

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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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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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We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
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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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I strove with none for none was worth my strife.
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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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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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