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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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Warwickshire
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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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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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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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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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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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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable less ordinary, pleasant novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.
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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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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.
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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.
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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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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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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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