Walter Savage Landor Quotes

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• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

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  Humanity, Earth, Divine

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• Great men always pay deference to greater.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Pay

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• How sweet and sacred idleness is!

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  Sweet, Sacred, Idleness

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.272

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

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  Thinking, Ideas, Together

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.74

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• Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

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  Men, Kwanzaa, Nails

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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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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  Music, Art, Inspiration

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• I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

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  Art, Fire, Hands

  "Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher" l. 1 (1853)

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• The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

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  Money, Pay, Wealth

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.174

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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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  Life, Nature, Future

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

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  Happiness, Happy, Wish

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• Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, His Love, Pleasure

  Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways”, p.27

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• Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

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  Library, Exploring

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.205

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

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  Life, Lying, Path

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.225

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• A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

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  Government, Long, Democracy

  Josiah Ablett, Walter Savage Landor (1837). “Literary Hours”, p.87

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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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  Oil, Childhood, Age

  "Oil USA". Book by Thomas Chi, p. 7, December 1, 2011.

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• Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

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  Greatness, Men, Littles

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.110

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• Consult duty not events.

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  Advice, Events, Duty

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• When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

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  Home, Feelings, Mind

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.272

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• There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

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  Thinking, Justice, Diversity

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.428

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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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  Perfect, Cooking, Brain

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.49

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• Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

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  Poetry, Sculpture, Painting

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.149

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• What is reading but silent conversation?

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  Book, Reading, Library

  Walter Savage Landor (1826). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.497

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• Delay in justice is injustice.

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  Justice, Delay, Injustice

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• Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

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  God, Wise, Wisdom

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du”, p.16

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• It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

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  Wise, Desire, Belief

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.225

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