"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage on Absence
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"O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet."

Landor, Walter Savage on Age and Aging
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"Consult duty not events."

Landor, Walter Savage on Duty
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"Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present."

Landor, Walter Savage on The future
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"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

Landor, Walter Savage on Goals
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"Great men always pay deference to greater."

Landor, Walter Savage on Greatness
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"We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented."

Landor, Walter Savage on Happiness
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"We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier."

Landor, Walter Savage on Happiness
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"There is nothing on earth divine except humanity."

Landor, Walter Savage on Humankind
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"We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."

Landor, Walter Savage on Ingratitude
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"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."

Landor, Walter Savage on Justice
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"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."

Landor, Walter Savage on Anger
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"Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart."

Landor, Walter Savage on Argument
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"An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof."

Landor, Walter Savage on Merit
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"We talk on principal, but act on motivation."

Landor, Walter Savage on Motivation
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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."

Landor, Walter Savage on Poetry and Poets
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"In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always."

Landor, Walter Savage on Politicians and Politics
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"I strove with none; for none was worth my strife."

Landor, Walter Savage on Quarrels
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"A solitude is the audience-chamber of God."

Landor, Walter Savage on Solitude
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"What is reading, but silent conversation."

Landor, Walter Savage on Books - Reading
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"No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable."

Landor, Walter Savage on Busyness
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"My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them."

Landor, Walter Savage on Thoughts and Thinking
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"The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."

Landor, Walter Savage on Writers and Writing
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"Wrong is but falsehood put in practice."

Landor, Walter Savage on Wrong
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"I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart."

Landor, Walter Savage on Death and Dying
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