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Walter Savage Landor Quotes
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Type: Poet Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes Date of Birth: January 30, 1775 Date of Death: September 17, 1864 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Walter Savage Landor Related Authors: Alexander Pope W. H. Auden Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Dryden Edward Young Percy Bysshe Shelley Alfred Lord Tennyson Herbert Read |
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 Consult duty not events. Walter Savage Landor Delay in justice is injustice. Walter Savage Landor Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him. Walter Savage Landor Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. Walter Savage Landor Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. 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 Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. Walter Savage Landor Great men always pay deference to greater. Walter Savage Landor Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. Walter Savage Landor I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. 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 ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. Walter Savage Landor No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. 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 Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. Walter Savage Landor The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. Walter Savage Landor The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. 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 delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer. Walter Savage Landor There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it. Walter Savage Landor There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. Walter Savage Landor Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess. 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 often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. 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 |
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