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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Consult duty not events.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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.
List of Landor's Imaginary Conversations