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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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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.
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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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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
Walter Savage Landor
The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.
Walter Savage Landor
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
Walter Savage Landor
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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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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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
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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.
Walter Savage Landor
Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
Walter Savage Landor
My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor
Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
Walter Savage Landor
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.
Walter Savage Landor
Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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