Special Dictionary / Quotations / Walter Savage Landor
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35 Quotations of Walter Savage Landor.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is j ...2.
A solitude is the audience-chamber of ...3.
Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suf ...4.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A ...5.
An ingenuous, mind feels in unmerited praise, the bitterest r ...6.
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all tha ...7.
Consult duty, not even ...8.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbor. Competition is as wholesome in reli ...9.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low ...10.
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of ...11.
Great men always pay deference to grea ...12.
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they ra ...13.
I strove with none; for none was worth my st ...14.
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to ...15.
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood ...16.
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin ...17.
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, ...18.
O what a thing is age! Death without death's q ...19.
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin ...20.
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, p ...| Next Page >> |
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