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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
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Warwick
Warwickshire
Contentment
Vision
Better
Visions

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Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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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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If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
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I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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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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