“I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
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“My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Thinking
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“No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“What is reading, but silent conversation.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Solitude
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“I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Political
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“We talk on principal, but act on motivation.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Motivational
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“An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Anger
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“A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Justice
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“We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Humankind
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“We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“Great men always pay deference to greater.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Greatness
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“People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Goals
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“Consult duty not events.”
Walter Savage Landor
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Duty
