Walter Savage Landor Quotes
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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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.
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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyesMay weep, but never see,A night of memories and of sighsI consecrate to thee.
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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.
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Delay in justice is injustice.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.