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Inspirational Quotes by Walter Savage Landor
- What is reading but silent conversation?
- Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
- Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes…
- The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.
- 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…
- Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen…
- Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
- O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
- In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
- We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
- Cats ask plainly for what they want.
- We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
- Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
- Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
- No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
- Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
- A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune.
- Hope is the mother of faith.
- The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
- The assailant is often in the right; the assailed is always.
- We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.
- True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
- Consult duty not events.
- I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
- Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.
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