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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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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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Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
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There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.
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Every good writer has much idiom it is the life and spirit of language.
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Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
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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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Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.
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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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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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I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
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There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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