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Walter Savage Landor [1775-1864] English
Rank: 101
Poet, Writer


Walter Savage Landor was an English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylmer, but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity.

Anger, Art, God, Happiness, Men, Music, Poetry, Politics, Power, Truth



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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. Art, God, Music
101
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
102
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. Men, Truth
103
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! Power
104
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
105
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. Anger
106
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
107
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
108
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. Happiness
109
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
110
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
111
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
112
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. Politics
113
Delay in justice is injustice.
114
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
115
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
116
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
117
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
118
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
119
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
120
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
121
Great men always pay deference to greater.
122
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
123
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
124
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
125
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
126
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
201
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
202
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.
203
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. Poetry
204
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
205
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
206
Consult duty not events.
207
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
208
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
209

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