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Walter Savage Landor Quotes
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Famous Walter Savage Landor Quotations
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Walter Savage Landor (30 January 1775 - 17 September 1864) was an English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylmer, but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity. As remarkable as his work was his rumbustious character and lively temperament
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- Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.
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- 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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- Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
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- Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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- 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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- People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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- We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
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- 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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- We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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