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Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor föddes den 30 januar 1775 och dog den 17 september 1864 - brittisk författare.
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner

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

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

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

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

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Consult duty not events.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak / Four not exempt from pride some future day. / Resting on one white hand a warm wet cheek / Over my open volume you will say, / `This man loved me!' then rise and trip away.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

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