Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landorwas 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. As remarkable as his work was, it was equalled by his rumbustious character and lively temperament...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 January 1775
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Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.
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Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
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When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
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Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.