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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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Warwick
Warwickshire
Religion
Peace
Christ
War
Good
Christendom
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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, 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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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
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We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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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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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
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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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Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.
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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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