Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. Walter Savage Landor More Quotes by Walter Savage Landor More Quotes From Walter Savage Landor This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again. Walter Savage Landor light dream fall Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life. Walter Savage Landor gentleman pounds years It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you. Walter Savage Landor would-be dream may God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn. Walter Savage Landor light flower beauty Consult duty not events. Walter Savage Landor duty events advice How sweet and sacred idleness is! Walter Savage Landor idleness sacred sweet There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul. Walter Savage Landor eloquence soul doe Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Walter Savage Landor future human-nature looks The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. Walter Savage Landor wisdom wise writing I strove with none; for none was worth my strife. Walter Savage Landor strife quarrels Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. Walter Savage Landor writing profound looks Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another. Walter Savage Landor fields writing moving In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. Walter Savage Landor argument politician politics O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet. Walter Savage Landor aging age death Delay in justice is injustice. Walter Savage Landor delay injustice justice In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend. Walter Savage Landor gratitude heart sweet The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. Walter Savage Landor stupid practice religion Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear. Walter Savage Landor whispering ears fear The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. Walter Savage Landor political power wise Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where she loves to lead. What various feelings come from days gone by! What tears from far-off sources dim the eye! Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play, And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, Mind how at every touch, at every tone, A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone. Walter Savage Landor eye sweet life
