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Walter Savage Landor
English
Poet
About the author
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Men
#Happiness
#Goodness
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Honor
#Man
#Justice
#Conscience
#Vanity
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#God
#Solitude
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,
English
Poet
#Power
#Rest
#Fame
#Grave
#Ambition
#Reward
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Men
#Laws
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Ambition
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Mind
#Praise
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Men
Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Duty
#Events
Delay in justice is injustice.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Delay
#Injustice
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,
English
Poet
#Religion
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Writing
#Posterity
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Usefulness
#Men
#Direction
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Future
#Nature
#Human nature
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Worth
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,
English
Poet
#God
#Art
#Earth
#Man
#Music
#Heaven
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Thoughts
#Company
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#People
#Direction
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,
English
Poet
#Prose
#Poetry
#Weight
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Being
#Men
#Gain
#Greatness
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Study
#Youth
#Old
#Age
#Childhood
#Oil
#Adulthood
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Love
#Anger
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Song
#Singing
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Power
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Religion
#Competition
#Commerce
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Nothing
#Earth
#Humanity
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,
English
Poet
#Men
#Truth
#Consequences
#Excess
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Life
#Leading
#Lie
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Self
#Reality
#Fancy
#Ingratitude
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Talk
#Act
#Motivation
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Self
#Reality
#Ingratitude
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Truth
#Argument
#Politics
#Falsehood
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet
#Singing
#Delight
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
Walter Savage Landor,
English
Poet