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Men Quotes by Walter Savage Landor
- A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
- Great men always pay deference to greater.
- Cats like men are flatterers.
- Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
- Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
- Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their…
- A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
- Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great…
- Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
- Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.
- There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which…
- The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
- It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no…
- True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.
- Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
- Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
- Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
- Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in…
- Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
- If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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