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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

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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Warwickshire
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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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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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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Hope is the mother of faith.
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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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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 fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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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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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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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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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
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Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
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The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
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Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.
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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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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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