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If there were no falsehood in...

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

The sweetest souls, like the ...

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

The spirit of Greece, passing...

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

The heart that once has been ...

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Fame often rests at first upo...

Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

There is a desire of property...

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

States, like men, have their ...

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

As there are some flowers whi...

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Do not expect to be acknowled...

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.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

We may receive so much light ...

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

God scatters beauty as he sca...

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

It has been my fortune to lov...

It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

The only effect of public pun...

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

In the hours of distress and ...

In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Tyrants never perish from tyr...

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

He who brings ridicule to bea...

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Merit has rarely risen of its...

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

In honest truth, a name given...

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

No good writer was ever long ...

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

Friendship may sometimes step...

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

Walter Savage Landor 234 quotes

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