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Walter Savage Landor

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


— Walter Savage Landor


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We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.


— Walter Savage Landor


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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.


— Walter Savage Landor


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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.


— Walter Savage Landor


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


— Walter Savage Landor


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


— Walter Savage Landor


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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.


— Walter Savage Landor


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


— Walter Savage Landor


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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.


— 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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