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• We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Philosophy, Light, May

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.444

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• Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Ordinary, Giants, Body

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

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• Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Memories, Eye, Night

  'Rose Aylmer' (1806)

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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.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Thinking, Joy, Duration

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• I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

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  Strife, Quarrels

  "Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher" l. 1 (1853)

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• Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Art, Nature, Next

  "Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher" l. 1 (1853)

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• The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Eye, Criticism, Sides

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.121

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• The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

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  Offending, Flattery, Language

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• Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Broken, Vases, Violence

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.4

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• When we play the fool, how wideThe theatre expands! beside,How long the audience sits before us!How many prompters! what a chorus!

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  Play, Long, Theatre

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.665

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• Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Children, Pride, Men

  Walter Savage Landor (1858). “Dry Sticks, Fagoted”, p.72

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• Cats ask plainly for what they want.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Cat, Want, Asks

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.207

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• Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

  Walter Savage Landor

  Failure, Failing, Mishaps

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.311

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• States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

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  Men, Growth, Decay

  'Imaginary Conversations' 'Pollio and Calvus' in 'The Works of Walter Savage Landor' (1876) vol. 2, p. 441

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• As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

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  Flower, Men, Smell

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.377

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• Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Pace, May, Steps

  Walter Savage Landor (1888). “Imaginary Conversations”

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

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  Witty, Wit

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.51

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• A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

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  Greatness, Men, Hazards

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.365

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• We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

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  Fate, Acceptance, Yield

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.170

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• But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

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  Ocean, August, Ears

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

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  Fall, Autumn, Years

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.318

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• We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure.

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  Long, Giving, Diversity

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.4

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• Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Character, Matter, Form

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• Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

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  Friendship, Virtue

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.435

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• Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Fall, Genius, Firsts

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.43

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