Landor, Walter Savage quotes
1775-1864 British Poet EssayistConsult duty not events.
Landor, Walter Savage
Duty
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Landor, Walter Savage
Death and Dying
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
Landor, Walter Savage
Busyness
What is reading, but silent conversation.
Landor, Walter Savage
Books - Reading
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Landor, Walter Savage
Greatness
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Landor, Walter Savage
Happiness
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Landor, Walter Savage
Future
We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
Landor, Walter Savage
Happiness
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Landor, Walter Savage
Goals
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Landor, Walter Savage
Humankind
A man s vanity tells him what is honor, a man s conscience what is justice.
Landor, Walter Savage
Justice
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Landor, Walter Savage
Ingratitude
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.
Landor, Walter Savage
Poetry and Poets
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Landor, Walter Savage
Motivation
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Landor, Walter Savage
Politicians and Politics
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Landor, Walter Savage
Merit
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Landor, Walter Savage
Solitude
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Landor, Walter Savage
Quarrels
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
Landor, Walter Savage
Thoughts and Thinking
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.
Landor, Walter Savage
Argument
O what a thing is age! Death without death s quiet.
Landor, Walter Savage
Age and Aging
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Landor, Walter Savage
Anger
Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.
Landor, Walter Savage
Absence
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Landor, Walter Savage
Writers and Writing
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
Landor, Walter Savage
Wrong