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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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
Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness none can be happy with a small portion of content.
Walter Savage Landor
Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
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We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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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.
Walter Savage Landor
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
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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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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
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Falsehood is for a season.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
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A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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Hope is the mother of faith.
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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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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
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.
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A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
Walter Savage Landor
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.
Walter Savage Landor
