All Walter Savage Landor Quotes
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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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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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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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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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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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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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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