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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
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Falsehood
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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Kings play at war unfairly with republics they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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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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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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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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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
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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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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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