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Walter Savage Landor

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Ambition, Name, Rest

Walter Savage Landor

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

Think, Him, Wisest

Walter Savage Landor

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Happy, Wish, Soon

Walter Savage Landor

Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Walter Savage Landor

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

Walter Savage Landor

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

praise, flattery

Walter Savage Landor

We talk on principle but we act on interest.

Walter Savage Landor

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

Walter Savage Landor

Delay of justice is injustice.

Walter Savage Landor

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

Walter Savage Landor

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

government, rule

Walter Savage Landor

Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.