Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.
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
Sacred
Imprudence
Open
Grieves
Music
Intemperance
Gluttony
Channels
Grieving
Stream
Streams
More quotes by Walter Savage Landor
Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.
Walter Savage Landor
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
Walter Savage Landor
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.
Walter Savage Landor
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
Walter Savage Landor
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
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
Delay in justice is injustice.
Walter Savage Landor
Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
Walter Savage Landor
Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
Walter Savage Landor
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor
Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
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
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
Walter Savage Landor
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.
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
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.
Walter Savage Landor
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Walter Savage Landor
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.
Walter Savage Landor
It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
Walter Savage Landor
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
