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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest harder than adamant never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
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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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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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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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