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Walter Savage Landor Quotes
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There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
The very beautiful rarely love at all. Those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
I feel I am growing old for want of somebody to tell me that I am looking as young as ever. Charming falsehood! There is a vast deal of vital air loving words (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid looks most profound (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
We are poor, indeed, when we have no half ishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Study is the bane of boyhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings. Compassion in the first instance is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? the tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller? (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer than the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some Earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! It is that which death has frowned on and passed over (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
The religion of Christ is peace and good will, the religion of Christendom is war and ill will (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Familiarities are the aphides that imperceptibly suck out the juice intended for the germ of love (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)