Walter Savage Landor Quotes

English - Poet | January 30, 1775 - September 17, 1864

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Walter Savage Landor

TogetherThoughtsI CanCompanyThem

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

Walter Savage Landor

PowerWiseFaceBecomeSameColour

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

Walter Savage Landor

MenDirectionLoseNailsBendBegin

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Walter Savage Landor

PersonMiserableFoundEverReally

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Walter Savage Landor

GreatMenGreat MenAlwaysPay

Consult duty not events.

Walter Savage Landor

DutyEventsConsult

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Walter Savage Landor

HappyBe HappyBecauseCannot

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Walter Savage Landor

JusticeManHonorVanityHimTells

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Walter Savage Landor

MindPraiseFeelsBitterest

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.

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GreatPoetryHandBearDealWeight

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

Walter Savage Landor

TruthPoliticsArgumentAlways

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

Walter Savage Landor

WorthNoneStrife

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