A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Walter Savage Landor
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter Savage Landor
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
Walter Savage Landor
Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor
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
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor
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
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Walter Savage Landor
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Walter Savage Landor
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Walter Savage Landor
O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
Walter Savage Landor
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.
Walter Savage Landor
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
Walter Savage Landor
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Type:
Poet
Date of Birth:
1775-01-30
Year of Death:
1864
Nationality:
English |
