Quotes by Landor, Walter Savage

"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage on absence
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"O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet."

Landor, Walter Savage on age and aging   

"Consult duty not events."

Landor, Walter Savage on duty   

"Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present."

Landor, Walter Savage on the future   

"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

Landor, Walter Savage on goals   

"Great men always pay deference to greater."

Landor, Walter Savage on greatness   

"We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented."

Landor, Walter Savage on happiness   

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

Landor, Walter Savage on happiness
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"There is nothing on earth divine except humanity."

Landor, Walter Savage on humankind   

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

Landor, Walter Savage on ingratitude   

"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."

Landor, Walter Savage on justice   

"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."

Landor, Walter Savage on anger   

"Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart."

Landor, Walter Savage on argument   

"An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof."

Landor, Walter Savage on merit   

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"We talk on principal, but act on motivation."

Landor, Walter Savage on motivation
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"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."

Landor, Walter Savage on poetry and poets   

"In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always."

Landor, Walter Savage on politics   

"I strove with none; for none was worth my strife."

Landor, Walter Savage on quarrels   

"A solitude is the audience-chamber of God."

Landor, Walter Savage on solitude   

"What is reading, but silent conversation."

Landor, Walter Savage on books - reading
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"No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable."

Landor, Walter Savage on busyness   

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

Landor, Walter Savage on thoughts and thinking   

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

Landor, Walter Savage on writers and writing   

"Wrong is but falsehood put in practice."

Landor, Walter Savage on wrong   

"I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart."

Landor, Walter Savage on death