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• Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Country, Law, Next

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.113

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• Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

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  Future, Looks, Human Nature

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• Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

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  Spring, Wine, Oil

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• There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell.

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  Farewell, Said, Consolation

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.453

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• He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.

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  Hands, Bears, Blades

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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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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  Anger, Heart, Understanding

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.242

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• Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

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  Wise, Doubt, Mind

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

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• Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

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  Writing, Profound, Looks

  'Imaginary Conversations' (1824) 'Southey and Porson'

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• Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.

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  Happiness, Men, Air

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

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

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  Grace, Kneeling, Too Much

  Walter Savage Landor (1868). “Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations”, p.5

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• Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

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  Men, Modesty, Affair

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.81

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Passion, Alone Time

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.165

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• 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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  Air, Fame

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.247

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• Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

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  Errors, Understanding, Mastery

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.98

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• I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.

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  Hate, Care, Fit

  Walter Savage Landor (1969). “The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor”

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• A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.

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  Philosopher, Fortune

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

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  World, Poet

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.359, Delphi Classics

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• Children are what the mothers are.

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  Mother, Children

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• The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Writing

  Walter Savage Landor, John Forster, Charles George Crump (1891). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men”

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• There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

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  Music, Sight, Singing

  Walter Savage Landor (1898). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”

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• Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

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  Competition, Atheism, Moral

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.96

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

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  Love, Anger, Flames

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.66, Delphi Classics

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• The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

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  Music, Song, Waiting

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.359, Delphi Classics

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• An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

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  Mind, Criticism, Praise

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• The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

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  Women, Foundation, Virtue

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