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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet. — Walter Savage Landor

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. — Walter Savage Landor

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth. — Walter Savage Landor

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. — Walter Savage Landor

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul. — Walter Savage Landor

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God. — Walter Savage Landor

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. — Walter Savage Landor

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. — Walter Savage Landor

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

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. — Walter Savage Landor

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier. — Walter Savage Landor

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream. — Walter Savage Landor

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. — Walter Savage Landor

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer. — Walter Savage Landor

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. — Walter Savage Landor

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. — Walter Savage Landor

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one — Walter Savage Landor

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight. — Walter Savage Landor

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library. — Walter Savage Landor

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. — Walter Savage Landor

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. — Walter Savage Landor

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor

Consult duty not events. — Walter Savage Landor

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together. — Walter Savage Landor

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman. — Walter Savage Landor

Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over. — Walter Savage Landor

When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus! — Walter Savage Landor

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. — Walter Savage Landor

Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth. — Walter Savage Landor

Virtue is presupposed in friendship. — Walter Savage Landor

The assailant is often in the right; the assailed is always. — Walter Savage Landor

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. — Walter Savage Landor

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone. — Walter Savage Landor

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom. — Walter Savage Landor

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence. — Walter Savage Landor

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. — Walter Savage Landor

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another. — Walter Savage Landor

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so. — Walter Savage Landor

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. — Walter Savage Landor

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. — Walter Savage Landor

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. — Walter Savage Landor

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. — Walter Savage Landor

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

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. — Walter Savage Landor

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable. — Walter Savage Landor

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best. — Walter Savage Landor

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne. — Walter Savage Landor

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. — Walter Savage Landor

Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language. — Walter Savage Landor

There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it. — Walter Savage Landor

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home. — Walter Savage Landor

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. — Walter Savage Landor

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us. — Walter Savage Landor

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery. — Walter Savage Landor

Death stands above me,
Whispering low I know not what into my ear. — Walter Savage Landor

Contentment is better than divinations or visions. — Walter Savage Landor

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over. — Walter Savage Landor

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. — Walter Savage Landor

Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness. — Walter Savage Landor

When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes. — Walter Savage Landor

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

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor

We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us. — Walter Savage Landor

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,
Than that the largest heart is soonest broken. — Walter Savage Landor

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her. — Walter Savage Landor

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. — Walter Savage Landor

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. — Walter Savage Landor

Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. — Walter Savage Landor

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

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise. — Walter Savage Landor

What is reading but silent conversation. — Walter Savage Landor

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness. — Walter Savage Landor

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess. — Walter Savage Landor

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. — Walter Savage Landor

Delay in justice is injustice. — Walter Savage Landor

I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing. — Walter Savage Landor

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor

Belief in the future life is the appetite of reason. — Walter Savage Landor

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author. — Walter Savage Landor

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. — Walter Savage Landor

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another. — Walter Savage Landor

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him. — Walter Savage Landor

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it. — Walter Savage Landor

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command. — Walter Savage Landor

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight. — Walter Savage Landor

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others. — Walter Savage Landor

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

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand. — Walter Savage Landor

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. — Walter Savage Landor

Falsehood is for a season. — Walter Savage Landor

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever. — Walter Savage Landor

There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words. — Walter Savage Landor

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end. — Walter Savage Landor

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. — Walter Savage Landor

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman. — Walter Savage Landor

Children are what the mothers are. — Walter Savage Landor