Walter Savage Landor Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Walter Savage Landor
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“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”
Gifts Quotes
“We talk on principle, but we act on interest”
Interest Quotes
“Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.”
Prose Quotes
“Thou breathing dial! since thy day began The present hour was ever mark'd with shade.”
Sun dial mottoes Quotes
Source: Miscellaneous Poems (vol. VIII, p. 92 (1846))
“Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.”
Future Quotes
“I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.”
Quarrels Quotes
“What is reading, but silent conversation.”
Books Quotes
“Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.”
Wrong Quotes
“An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.”
Courage Quotes
“Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart. -Walter Savage Landor.”
Heart-quotes Quotes