Walter Savage Landor Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.”
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“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.”
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“What is reading but silent conversation?”
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“Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.”
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“We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.”
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“A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.”
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“Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.”
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“Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.”
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“A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.”
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“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.”
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“The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.”
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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.”
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“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.”
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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.”
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“My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.”
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“The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.”
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“There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.”
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“I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.”
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“The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.”
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“The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.”
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“It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.”
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“If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.”
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“Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.”
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“No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.”
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“Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.”
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“The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.”
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“Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.”
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“The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.”
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“Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.”
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