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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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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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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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What is reading but silent conversation?
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My thoughts are my company I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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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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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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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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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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