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Walter Savage Landor Inspirational Quotes (220)

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Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.
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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
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Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
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The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
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Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
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The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.
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What is reading but silent conversation?
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
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The assailant is often in the right that the assailed is always.
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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.
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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
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Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
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Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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