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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. (Walter Savage Landor)
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. View quote
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. View quote
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. View quote
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. View quote
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. View quote
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. View quote
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation. View quote
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. View quote
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. View quote
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. (Walter Savage Landor)
Great men always pay deference to greater. View quote
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. View quote
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. View quote
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People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. View quote
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. View quote
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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. View quote
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. View quote
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We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. View quote
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. View quote
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But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue... Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. (Walter Savage Landor)
Tis verse that gives Immortal youth to mortal maids. View quote
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What is reading but silent conversation. View quote
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. View quote
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. View quote
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