Walter Savage Landor
Poet
1775-01-30
Books by Walter Savage Landor
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Imaginary conversations
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The complete works of Walter Savage Landor
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Pericles and Aspasia
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Quotes by Walter Savage Landor
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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What is reading but silent conversation.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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What is reading but silent conversation.
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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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 think differently from him.
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Belief in the future life is the appetite of reason.
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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.
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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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