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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Delay in justice is injustice.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Great men always pay deference to greater.
List of Landor's Imaginary Conversations