35 Quotations by Walter Savage Landor
- 21. The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

- 22. The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to co ...

- 23. The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

- 24. There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

- 25. There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof ...

- 26. There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

- 27. Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are quite satisfied are the sole b ...

- 28. Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blu ...

- 29. We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

- 30. We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

- 31. We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater tha ...

- 32. We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

- 33. We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

- 34. What is reading, but silent conversation.

- 35. Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

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