Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor

British poet

Alive from: 1775-1864

Category: Poets (Contemporary)

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  A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

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  Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

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  An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

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  Consult duty not events.

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  Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

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  Great men always pay deference to greater.

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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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  I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

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

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  In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

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

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  No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

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  O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

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  People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.