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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.
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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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
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The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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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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All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
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Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness none can be happy with a small portion of content.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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A little praise is good for a shy temper it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
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We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man it is his love.
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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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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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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
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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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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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