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Wherever there is excessive we...

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

An ingenious mind feels in unm...

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Life and death appear more cer...

Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Principles do not mainly influ...

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Cats like men are flatterers....

Cats like men are flatterers.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

The habit of pleasing by flatt...

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

In the morn of life we are ale...

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

There is no easy path leading ...

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

The highest price we can pay f...

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

We listen to those whom we kno...

We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Immoderate power, like other i...

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Two evils, of almost equal wei...

Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Men universally are ungrateful...

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Solitude is the audience-chamb...

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

The moderate are not usually t...

The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Heat and animosity, contest an...

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.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Even the weakest disputant is ...

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

There is no eloquence which do...

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

How sweet and sacred idleness ...

How sweet and sacred idleness is!

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

You should indeed have longer ...

You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

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