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Walter Savage Landor Quotes
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A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved - is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe nail hath suffered worse (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
The heart that has once been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to nature, art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; it sinks, and I am ready to depart (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it (Walter Savage Landor Quotes)