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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.
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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Ovid
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Others
Virgil
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More quotes by Walter Savage Landor
I delight in the diffusion of learning yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
Walter Savage Landor
Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
Walter Savage Landor
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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
Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.
Walter Savage Landor
It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
Walter Savage Landor
The highest price we can pay for anything is to ask it.
Walter Savage Landor
Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings compassion, in the first instance, is good for both I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
Walter Savage Landor
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.
Walter Savage Landor
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
Walter Savage Landor
Consult duty not events.
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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.
Walter Savage Landor
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
Walter Savage Landor
Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.
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
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable less ordinary, pleasant novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.
Walter Savage Landor
Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.
Walter Savage Landor
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
Walter Savage Landor
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us ordinary men gain much.
Walter Savage Landor
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Walter Savage Landor
