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• Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Evening, Turbulence

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.287

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• Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Spring, Ascent, Pebbles

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.291

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• All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Philosophy, School, Exercise

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• The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Thinking, Excess

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

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• There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Art, Men, Desire

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.207

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• We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Imagination, Wish

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.225

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• I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Sky, Rainbow, Shining

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.644

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• The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Giving, Sincere, Prudence

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

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• God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it; and the other's when we have had it for some time.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Differences, Rose, Thorns

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.444

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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.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Punishment, Nails, Toes

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.91

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• The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Stupid, Practice, Religion

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• We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Care, Noise, Affection

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.574

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• I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Existence, Courses

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• Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Long, Age

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Dialogues in verse : Gebir. Acts and scenes. Hellenics”

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• We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Thinking, Sorrow, Affliction

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• In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Gratitude, Sweet, Heart

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• Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Conceited, Thinking, Religion

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.223

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• O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Death, Age, Aging

  "Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen".

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• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Politics, Argument, Politician

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.23

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• Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Sweet, Men, Self

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

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• Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Dream, Truth, Sometimes

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• 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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• I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Death, Fire, Hands

  'Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher' (1853)

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• Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Philosophy, Religion, Inheritance

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.180

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• And Modesty, who, when she goes,
  Is gone for ever.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Gone, Modesty

  Walter Savage Landor (1831). “Gebir, Count Julian: And Other Poems”, p.357

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