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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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
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Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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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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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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I have since written what no tide Shall ever wash away, what men Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide And find Ianthe's name agen.
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Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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