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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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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it but we avoid such as differ from us.
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A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
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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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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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Hope is the mother of faith.
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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 heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
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Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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