Walter Savage Landor quotes - page 3

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it. (Walter Savage Landor)
Delay in justice is injustice. View quote
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Consult duty not events. View quote
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. View quote
Walter Savage Landor
Fame, they tell you, is air but without air there is no life for any without fame there is none for the best. View quote
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Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where she loves to lead. What various feelings come from days gone by What tears from far-off sources dim the eye Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play, And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, Mind how at every touch, at every tone, A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 theyll shine again. View quote
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Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art. View quote
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I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so. View quote
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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. (Walter Savage Landor)
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are the turbid look the most profound. View quote
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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear. View quote
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In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance A friend. View quote
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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God. View quote
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