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Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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Warwick
Warwickshire
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More quotes by Walter Savage Landor
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.
Walter Savage Landor
Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.
Walter Savage Landor
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
Walter Savage Landor
In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
Walter Savage Landor
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.
Walter Savage Landor
Delay in justice is injustice.
Walter Savage Landor
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.
Walter Savage Landor
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor
Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
Walter Savage Landor
A little praise is good for a shy temper it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
Walter Savage Landor
Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
Walter Savage Landor
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once it can never be trusted after.
Walter Savage Landor
An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor
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.
Walter Savage Landor
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
Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
Walter Savage Landor
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
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
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.
Walter Savage Landor
Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best.
Walter Savage Landor
