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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Visions
Contentment
Vision
Better

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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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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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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
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I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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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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What is reading but silent conversation?
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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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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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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.
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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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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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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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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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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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