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• 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.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hands, Weight, Bears

  'Imaginary Conversations' 'Archdeacon Hare and Walter Landor' in 'The Last Fruit off an Old Tree' (1853)

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• Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wisdom, Men, Two

  Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.182

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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.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Sweet, Eye

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Miscellaneous poems: Collection of 1846. Last fruit off an old tree. Dry sticks. Additional poems. Criticisms: Idyls of Theocritus. Poems of Catullus. Francesco Petrarca”, p.222

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• Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Dance, Heart, Dancing

  Walter Savage Landor, Marguerite Blessington (Countess of), John Francis Mariani (1973). “The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington”

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• I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Learning, Grease, Delight

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.81

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• Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Names, Gambling

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.125

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• Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Daughter, Gratitude, Justice

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”

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• Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Beauty, Order, Grace

  Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways”, p.86

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• As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Obscurity, Shells, Pearls

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.55

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• It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Looks, Easy, Difficulty

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.211

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• The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.

  Walter Savage Landor

  "Works: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations".

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• This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Dream, Fall, Light

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”

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• The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Death, Firsts, Pillow

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

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• It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Greatness, Law, Bird

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.166

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

  Walter Savage Landor

  Heart, Broken

  Walter Savage Landor (1969). “Poems”

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• The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Past, Notes, Music Is

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.19

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• Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Perseverance, Men, Littles

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”

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• How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Friends, Delight, Absence

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.151

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• To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Steps, Gone, Arms

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

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• Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Political, Goats

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.13

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• Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one would imagine we were dragging Time along by force, and not he us.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Procrastination, Practice, Hatred

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

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• Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Lying, True Life, Biographies

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.243

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• Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Country, Cuckoos, Mirth

  Walter Savage Landor (1826). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.453

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• Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Despotism, Secure

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.140

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• He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wall, Flames, Hands

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

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