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Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor

British poet

Lived from: 1775 - 1864

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 30 january 1775 Died: 17 september 1864

  • Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
  • Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

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  • A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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  • Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
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  • An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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  • Consult duty not events.
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  • Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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  • Great men always pay deference to greater.
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  • Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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  • I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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  • I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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  • In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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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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  • My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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  • No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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  • O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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  • People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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  • Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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  • The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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  • The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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  • There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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  • We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
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What are the most famous quotes from Walter Savage Landor?

The two most famous quotes from Walter Savage Landor are:

  • "A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."
  • "Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."

When did Walter Savage Landor live?

Walter Savage Landor was born in 1775 and died in the year 1864.