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Walter Savage Landor quotes: O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet. O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul. There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream. Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: 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. 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 quotes: There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer. There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. 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 quotes: 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 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place. Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream. O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library. Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all. Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace. Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Consult duty not events. Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together. I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over. Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will. The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,
the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Virtue is presupposed in friendship. Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form. Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them. The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing. In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: And Modesty, who, when she goes,Is gone for ever. And Modesty, who, when she goes,
Is gone for ever.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces. Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's. The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Hope is the mother of faith. Hope is the mother of faith.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable. We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne. Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Belief in the future life is the appetite of reason. Belief in the future life is the appetite of reason.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way. As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: I have since written what no tideShall ever wash away, what menUnborn shall read o'er ocean wideAnd find Ianthe's name agen. 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.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: How sweet and sacred idleness is! How sweet and sacred idleness is!
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest. Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love. Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Cats ask plainly for what they want. Cats ask plainly for what they want.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language. Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married. You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight. All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities. Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess. The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness. When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Cats, like men, are flatterers. Cats, like men, are flatterers.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same. Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. 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 quotes: True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another. True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken. No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,
Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand. A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another. Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: What is reading but silent conversation. What is reading but silent conversation.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. 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 quotes: The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over. 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 quotes: A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others. A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Children are what the mothers are. Children are what the mothers are.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Falsehood is for a season. Falsehood is for a season.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever. The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise. We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so. 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 quotes: Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight. 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 quotes: Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. 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 quotes: When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes. When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Contentment is better than divinations or visions. Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Death stands above me,Whispering low I know not what into my ear. Death stands above me,
Whispering low I know not what into my ear.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery. 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 quotes: A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor quotes: Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate. Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

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