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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in... →
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
List of Landor's Imaginary Conversations