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• Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Compassion, Suffering, Cuckoos

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.18

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• Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Appreciation, Men, Would Be

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.401

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• Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Friendship, Precious Stones, Broken

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.4

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• Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Men, Ordinary

  Walter Savage Landor (1883). “Classical dialogues, Greek and Roman”

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• Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Law, Law And Justice

  "The works of Walter Savage Landor". Edited by J. Forster,

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• Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Ideas, Light, Immortal Life

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.78

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• There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Soul, Doe, Eloquence

  Walter Savage Landor (1868). “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.220

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• You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Married, Should, Matrimony

  Walter Savage Landor (1969). “Poems”

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• No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Ashes, Incense, Burn Out

  Walter Savage Landor (1933). “Classical conversations: being imaginary conversations among Greek, Roman and Modern personages of classic consequence in the history of human culture”

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• There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

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  Pride, Men, Delicacy

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.201

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• The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Kings, Greatness, Pedestal

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.313

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• Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Admiration, Feels, Discharge

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.121

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• The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

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  Rocks, World, Ascending

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.256

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• If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Lying, Doubt, Would Be

  Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.222

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• A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Genius, Levels, Faults

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.162

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• Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Kings, Land, Democracy

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.6

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• Cats like men are flatterers.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Cat, Men, Flattery

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.207

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• We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Praise, Applause

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Classical dialogues (Roman) Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen”

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• Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Gratitude, Memories, Lying

  Walter Savage Landor, Charles George Crump (1909). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of literary men. Dialogues of famous women. Miscellaneous dialogues”

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• An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Mind, Unhappy, Praise

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.319

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• Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Law, Despotism, Violation

  Walter Savage Landor (1826). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.60

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• Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

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  Happiness, Men, Joy

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.17

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• I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Dancing, Together, Misery

  Walter Savage Landor, Marguerite Blessington (Countess of), John Francis Mariani (1973). “The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington”

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• Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Imagination, Fancy, Youth

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.123

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• Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Women, Shade, Woods

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.54

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