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Walter Savage Landor Quotes
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
My slumber broken and my doublet torn, I find the laurel also bears a thorn (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it, you are unhappy: if you accept it, you are undone (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved; and next to Nature, art. I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend: such nails are then thrown into the dust or into the furnace (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue... Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, and it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
When we play the fool, how wide the theatre expands! Beside, How long the audience sits before us! How many prompters! What a chorus! (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Around the child bend all the three sweet graces: faith, hope, charity. Around the man bend other faces; pride, envy, malice, are his graces (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a book which to say nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Wearers of rings and chains! Pray do not take the pains To set me right. In vain my faults ye quote; I write as others wrote On Sunium's hight (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn out and detailed one (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
We must not indulge in unfavourable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Ambition does not see the Earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)