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Walter Savage Landor Inspirational Quotes (220)

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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.
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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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A little praise is good for a shy temper it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
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Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
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We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
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A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
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As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
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Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
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Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
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Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.
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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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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
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That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.
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The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
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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.
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
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Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
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I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
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