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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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Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
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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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God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
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Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.
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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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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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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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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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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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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
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The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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