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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
Visions
Contentment
Vision
Better

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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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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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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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Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
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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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When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!
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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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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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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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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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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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Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
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In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
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Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.
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