Walter Savage Landor Quotes - Page 5

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• What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Dimensions, Companionship

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.94

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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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  Flower, Too Much, Fruit

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.111

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• The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Farewell, Said

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.177

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• It is delightful to kiss the eyelashes of the beloved--is it not? But never so delightful as when fresh tears are on them.

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  Kissing, Eyelashes, Tears

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.173

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• Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

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  Air, Fame

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.247

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• Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

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  Style, Spirit, Language

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.159

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• Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

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  Vision, Contentment

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.445

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• Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

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  Teacher, War, Experience

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.177

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• Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

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  Errors, Understanding, Mastery

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.98

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• There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Kindness, Air, Deals

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.144

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• Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

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  Wisdom, Lasting Happiness, Knowing

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.138

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• Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.

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  Mean, Madness, Oppression

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• We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.

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  Disappointment, Ambition, Wheels

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series)”

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• Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.

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  Death, Life And Death, Dying

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.434

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• Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

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  Wisdom, Men, Two

  Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.182

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• Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

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  Power, Compassion, Intemperance

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.70

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• In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

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  Life, Noon, Decline

  Walter Savage Landor (1891). “Imaginary Conversations”

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• Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

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  Men, Names, Gambling

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.125

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• No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

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  Miserable, Found, Persons

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• I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.

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  Learning, Grease, Delight

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.81

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• Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

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  Poverty, Wealth, Train

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.342

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

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  Success, Ambition, Rocks

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

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• When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

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  Kindness, Real, Cat

  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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• Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

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  Dance, Heart, Dancing

  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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• Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

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  Beauty, Order, Grace

  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.86

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