61 ordspråk av Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor föddes den
January 30th 1775 och dog den 17 September
1864 - best remembered for Imaginary Conversations, prose dialogues between historical personages.
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A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
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Ah, what avails the sceptred race! / Ah, what the form divine!
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
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Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, / No man hath walked along our roads with step / So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue/ So varied in discourse.
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Child of a day, thou knowest not / The tears that overflow thy urn.
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Consult duty not events.
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Delay in justice is injustice
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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
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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George the First was always reckoned / Vile, but viler George the Second; / And what mortal ever heard / Any good of George the Third? / When from earth the Fourth descended/ God be praised, the Georges ended!
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