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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.
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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Justice is often pale and melancholy but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
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What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
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