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Walter Savage Landor

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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.


— Walter Savage Landor


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


— Walter Savage Landor


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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.


— Walter Savage Landor


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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.


— Walter Savage Landor


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Consult duty not events.


— Walter Savage Landor


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


— Walter Savage Landor


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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.


— Walter Savage Landor


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Great men always pay deference to greater.


— Walter Savage Landor


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


— Walter Savage Landor


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About Walter Savage Landor

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Did you know about Walter Savage Landor?

Landor found Latin useful for expressing things that might otherwise have been “indecent or unattractive” as he put it and as a cover for libellous material. Equally sensitive are his “domestic” poems about his sister and his children. By a succession of bizarre actions he was successively thrown out of Rugby Oxford and from time to time from the family home.

Walter Savage Landor (30 January 1775 – 17 September 1864) was an English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations and the poem Rose Aylmer but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity.

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