Walter Savage Landor

Quote: Consult duty not events. [Walter Savage Landor]

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

Quote: No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: What is reading, but silent conversation. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: Great men always pay deference to greater. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: 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]

Quote: We talk on principal, but act on motivation. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: A solitude is the audience-chamber of God. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: 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. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. [Walter Savage Landor]

Quote: Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. [Walter Savage Landor]

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