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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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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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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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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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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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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
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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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If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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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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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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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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