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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 My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. |
| No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner |
| No slaves shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another |
| No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. |
| O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet. |
| Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one |
| People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. |
| 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. |
| Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak / Four not exempt from pride some future day. / Resting on one white hand a warm wet cheek / Over my open volume you will say, / `This man loved me!' then rise and trip away. |
| Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age |
| Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age |
| The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. |
| The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional |
| The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional |
| The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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