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Walter Savage Landor Inspirational Quotes (220)

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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.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
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Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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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.
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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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.
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Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
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Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.
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Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound.
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Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.
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A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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A great man knows the value of greatness he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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How sweet and sacred idleness is!
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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.
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Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs they also make him unfit for brothels.
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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.
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It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
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