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