Author: Walter Savage Landor

Quotes

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.

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

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

- Walter Savage Landor

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

- Walter Savage Landor

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

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

- Walter Savage Landor

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

- Walter Savage Landor

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

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

- Walter Savage Landor

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

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

- Walter Savage Landor

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

- Walter Savage Landor

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

- Walter Savage Landor

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