Religion Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

9 Religion quotes by Walter Savage Landor

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Landor’s essays are known for their vivid language, and his brief thoughts on spirituality match that intensity. In this short set you’ll encounter a passionate, articulate voice on belief.

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Hope is the mother of faith.

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The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

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Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

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

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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.

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

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Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most…

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Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as…

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The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods,…

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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

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Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom…

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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

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

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As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some…

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We talk on principle, but we act on interest

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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

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The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost…

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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

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

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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

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We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can;…

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Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among…

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The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

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