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Walter Savage Landor Inspirational Quotes (220)

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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Circumstances form the character but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.
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Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
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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.
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It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest I should for ever dream of you.
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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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The very beautiful rarely love at all those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
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Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
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Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
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Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.
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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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It is easy to look down on others to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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