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It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.
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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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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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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Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
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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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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
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The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.
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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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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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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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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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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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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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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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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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