Walter Savage Landor Quotes & Quotations

Walter Savage Landor Quotes

» People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

» We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

» We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

» We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

» There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

» A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

» An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

» We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

» 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.

» In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

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