Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Humanity, Earth, Divine

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Music, Art, Inspiration

• Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Success, Ambition, Rocks

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.461

• God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Beauty, Flower, Light

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.383

• Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Tyrants, Foundation, Earth

  Walter Savage Landor (1901). “Classical (imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern”

• Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Kings, War, Play

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.25

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