Best Quotes by Walter Savage Landor (Top 10)
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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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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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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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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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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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More Walter Savage Landor Quotes
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Cats like men are flatterers.
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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.
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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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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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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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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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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
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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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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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Consult duty not events.
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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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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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