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Walter Savage Landor Quotes

«My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.»
«The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional»
«Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.»
«The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.»
«Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue/ So varied in discourse.»
«There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: singer
«We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love»
«We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.»
«There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.»
«I strove with none; for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | About: Art, Nature | Keywords: sinks, strove, warmed

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