Famous Walter Savage Landor Quotations

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"No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable."
by Walter Savage Landor
"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."
by Walter Savage Landor
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked."
by 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."
by Walter Savage Landor
"Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another."
by Walter Savage Landor
"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend."
by 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."
by Walter Savage Landor
"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."
by Walter Savage Landor
"We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain."
by Walter Savage Landor
"We talk on principle, but we act on interest."
by Walter Savage Landor
"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."
by Walter Savage Landor
"Consult duty not events."
by Walter Savage Landor
"I strove with none; for none was worth my strife."
by 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."
by Walter Savage Landor
"Great men always pay deference to greater."
by Walter Savage Landor
"We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."
by Walter Savage Landor
"We talk on principal, but act on motivation."
by Walter Savage Landor
"In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always."
by Walter Savage Landor
"Wrong is but falsehood put in practice."
by Walter Savage Landor
"Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear;"
by Walter Savage Landor
"For, surely, surely, where Your voice and graces are, Nothing of death can any feel or know."
by Walter Savage Landor
"I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart."
by Walter Savage Landor
"I strove with none, for none was worth my strife: Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art:"
by Walter Savage Landor
"Stand close around,ye Stygian set, With Dirce in one boat convey'd,..."
by Walter Savage Landor


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