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:: 1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist |
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Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Poetry and Poets]
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Justice]
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Merit]
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Future]
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People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Goals]
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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Happiness]
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Happiness]
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Ingratitude]
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Death and Dying]
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Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Absence]
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
~ Walter Savage Landor - [Anger]
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