Walter Savage Landor Quotes

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor

Love, Anger, Bright

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

Music, God, Art

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor

Men, Lose, Direction

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor

Happy, Cannot, Contented

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Walter Savage Landor

Great, Men, Lose

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Walter Savage Landor

Together, Thoughts, Company

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

Men, Truth, Small

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor

Justice, Him, Honor

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

Religion, Him, Made

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Walter Savage Landor

Wise, Writing, Cannot

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

Power, Ambition, Rest

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor

Mind, Praise, Feels

Delay in justice is injustice.
Walter Savage Landor

Justice, Injustice, Delay

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
Walter Savage Landor

Nature, Future, Human

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor

Age, Study, Old

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor

Ambition, Avarice

Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor

Duty, Events, Consult

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor

Religion, Moral, Commerce

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Walter Savage Landor

Happiness, Good, Men

Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor

Great, Men, Pay

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Walter Savage Landor

Worth, Strife, None

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor

Politics, Truth, Argument

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
Walter Savage Landor

Few, Burn, Ashes

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Walter Savage Landor

Person, Miserable, Found

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: January 30, 1775

Died: September 17, 1864

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