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
wise desire belief
It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.
wise praise applause
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.
wise power political
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
wise opinion knows
We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.
wise block men
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.
wise existence whole
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
wise wisdom writing
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
christian wise wisdom
A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.
wise doubt mind
Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.
politics argument truth-prevails
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
stupid practice religion
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.
fading grave power rest transient
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.