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Walter Savage Landor

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Who is Walter Savage Landor? The quotes below are the best introduction we can offer. The range of their thinking — from Religion to Happiness — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Browse 11 quotes by Walter Savage Landor that cover ground from Religion, Happiness, Politics, Poetry, and Music. A line that stays with you: "We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier."

“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.”

— Walter Savage Landor

Religion

All Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.”

— Walter Savage Landor

Anger

“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.”

— Walter Savage Landor

Poetry

“Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.”

— Walter Savage Landor

Future

“Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.”

— Walter Savage Landor

Happiness

“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

Art

“Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.”

— Walter Savage Landor

Age

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

— Walter Savage Landor

Happiness

“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.”

— Walter Savage Landor

Religion

“In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.”

— Walter Savage Landor

Politics

“Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.”

— Walter Savage Landor

Religion