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Falsehood is for a season.

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
Falsehood
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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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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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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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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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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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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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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
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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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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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