Top 100 Quotes About Landor
#1. Thought fights with thought; out springs a spark of truth From the collision of the sword and shield.' W. S. LANDOR.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#3. We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.
Walter Savage Landor
#4. The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.
Walter Savage Landor
#5. Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
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#6. Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.
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#7. When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
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#8. Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
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#9. If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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#11. The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
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#13. Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
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#14. Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
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#15. 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.
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#17. Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.
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#18. There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
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#19. We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
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#20. It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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#23. Not dancing well, I never danced at all
and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.
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#24. Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.
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#25. A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
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#26. If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
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#27. Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
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#28. We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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#29. 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.
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#30. We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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#31. Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
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#33. Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
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#34. Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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#36. There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.
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#39. Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.
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#42. I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.
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#43. I see the rainbow in the sky, the dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why they glimmer or they pass. With folded arms I linger not to call them back; 'twere vain: In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again.
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#44. Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
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#45. The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
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#46. 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.
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#47. I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.
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#48. Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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#49. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you.
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#55. 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.
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#56. A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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#57. Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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#60. 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.
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#61. How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
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#62. Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
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#63. The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.
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#64. I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.
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#65. The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
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#66. The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
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#67. Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.
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#68. Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.
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#69. 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.
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#70. We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
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#74. There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.
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#76. 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.
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#77. As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
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#78. I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
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#79. I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.
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#80. No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,
Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
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#81. A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
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#82. Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.
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#83. 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.
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#84. What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?
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#85. No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.
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#86. Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
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#89. Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
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#91. The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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#92. There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.
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#93. We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
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#94. I have since written what no tide
Shall ever wash away, what men
Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide
And find Ianthe's name agen.
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#97. Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.
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#98. Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.
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#99. Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.
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#100. No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.
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