"The writing of the wise are the only……" — Walter Savage Landor
"The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."
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117 Quotes by Walter Savage Landor
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- A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
- There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from…
- What is reading but silent conversation?
- Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.
- Great men always pay deference to greater.
- Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
- An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
- Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes…
- Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
- Cats like men are flatterers.
- The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and…
- Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.