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“Contentment is better than divinations or visions.”

Quote by Walter Savage Landor

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

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The Works of Walter Savage Landor

This compilation includes a variety of works by the renowned author, showcasing his literary contributions across different genres. The collection features Landor's poetry, philosophical essays, and personal correspondence, offering insight into his thoughts and literary style. more

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Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor was an English writer known for his poetry and prose. His works are renowned for their wit, satire, and profound philosophical insights, which have had a lasting impact on literature. more

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“A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.”

Levels Genius Consequence Faults Critics Severe Detection

Book:The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

“The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.”

Firsts Death Presses Pillow

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

“As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.”

Fame Shells Pearls Tombs Obscurity

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

“Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.”

Firsts Fall Genius Fame Glory Swept Away

Book:Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor

“Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.”

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.”

Friendship Sun Righteousness Presence Of God Ardent

Book:Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations

Source: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations

“Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.”

Ifs Wells May States Friendship Violence Broken Stones Let Me Metaphor Accidents Former Heat Trusted Hopelessness Flawed Restoring Coarse Vases Precious Stones

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.”

Girl Friendship Hatred Intense Delicious

Book:Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

“Virtue is presupposed in friendship.”

Friendship Virtue

Book:Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

“Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.”

Men Littles Eye Goodness Snow Great Ones Little Man Colossus

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor