WSWalter Savage Landor

88 collected words

Walter Savage Landor

Life dates: 1775 AD — 1864 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1819 AD

Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose veil no mortal ever raised.

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02c. 1819 AD

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if no doubt, no inquiry; and if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius.

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03c. 1819 AD

Kindness in us is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

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04c. 1819 AD

Life is a casket, not precious in itself, but valuable in proportion to what fortune, or industry, or virtue has placed within it.

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05c. 1819 AD

Love is a secondary passion in those who love most, a primary in those who love least. He who is inspired by it in a high degree is inspired by honour in a higher; it never reaches its plenitude of growth and perfection but in the most exalted minds.

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06c. 1819 AD

Mind and body—that beauteous couple—exercise much and variously, but at home, at home, indoors, and about things indoors; for God is there too.

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07c. 1819 AD

Modesty when she goes, is gone for ever.

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08c. 1819 AD

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

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09c. 1819 AD

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

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10c. 1819 AD

Nothing is so grand as truth, nothing so forcible, nothing so novel.

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11c. 1819 AD

On a winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

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12c. 1819 AD

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.

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13c. 1819 AD

Songs may exist unsung, but voices exist only when they sound.

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14c. 1819 AD

Study is the bane of boyhood, the element of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age.

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15c. 1819 AD

The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges; the eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the sun.

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16c. 1819 AD

The happy man is he who distinguishes the boundary between desires and delight, and stands firmly on the higher ground.

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17c. 1819 AD

The religion of Christ is peace and goodwill, that of Christendom war and ill-will.

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18c. 1819 AD

The stars themselves are only bright by distance; go close, and all is earthy; but vapours illuminate there; from the breath and from the countenance of God comes light on worlds higher than they.

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19c. 1819 AD

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

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20c. 1819 AD

Truth, like the juice of a poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess.

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21c. 1819 AD

We are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented.

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22c. 1819 AD

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

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23c. 1819 AD

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

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24c. 1819 AD

We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

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