Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Walter Savage Landor
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Wilds
Woods
Ascending
Passing
Burst
Ancient
Animated
Universal
Greece
Rocks
Hath
Spirit
Passings
Nature
Torrents
World
Forth
More quotes by Walter Savage Landor
I warmed both hands before the fire of life It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Walter Savage Landor
Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.
Walter Savage Landor
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Walter Savage Landor
Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
Walter Savage Landor
When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
Walter Savage Landor
Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
Walter Savage Landor
Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.
Walter Savage Landor
Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
Walter Savage Landor
Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
Walter Savage Landor
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Walter Savage Landor
Life is but sighs and, when they cease, 'tis over.
Walter Savage Landor
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
Walter Savage Landor
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
Walter Savage Landor
Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other facesPride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.
Walter Savage Landor
Virtue is presupposed in friendship.
Walter Savage Landor
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.
Walter Savage Landor
Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
Walter Savage Landor
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
Walter Savage Landor
All schools of philosophy, and almost all authors, are rather to be frequented for exercise than for weight.
Walter Savage Landor
God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it and the other's when we have had it for some time.
Walter Savage Landor
