Quotes of Walter Savage Landor - somelinesforyou

“ We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Cats, like men, are flatterers. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger’s end. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks; and I am ready to depart. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks; and I am ready to depart. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ What is reading but silent conversation. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ What is reading but silent conversation. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

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

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

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

- Walter Savage Landor

“ The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ It is a dire calamity to have a slave; it is an expiable curse to be one. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

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

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Piety — warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace — is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Every sect is a moral check on its neighbor. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Every sect is a moral check on its neighbor. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ 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

“ Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ 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

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

- Walter Savage Landor

“ Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty. ”

- Walter Savage Landor

“ What is reading, but silent conversation. ”

- Walter Savage Landor
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