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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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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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Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once it can never be trusted after.
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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
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Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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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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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself.
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It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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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 may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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