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" No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. "
Walter Savage Landor
Lighter
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" The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. "
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" A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. "
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" We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. "
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" We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. "
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" There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer. "
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" Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. "
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" Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. "
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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. "
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" Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. "
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" An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. "
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" Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. "
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Childhood
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" Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. "
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" Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. "
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" My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. "
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I Can
" We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. "
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Soon
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" There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it. "
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Lie
Easy
Life
" Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. "
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Men
Happy
" Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! "
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" I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. "
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Strife
Worth
" We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. "
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" Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. "
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Truth
" Delay in justice is injustice. "
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Delay
Injustice
" Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. "
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Ambition
Avarice
" There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. "
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Except
Divine
Nothing
" Great men always pay deference to greater. "
Walter Savage Landor
Pay
Men
Great
" We talk on principal, but act on motivation. "
Walter Savage Landor
Act
Talk
Principal
" The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. "
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" Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. "
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