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Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Walter Savage Landor
God, Wise, Wisdom
Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du”, p.16

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Walter Savage Landor
Wise, Wisdom, Writing
Walter Savage Landor, John Forster, Charles George Crump (1891). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men”

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

Walter Savage Landor
Wisdom, Lasting Happiness, Knowing
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.138

Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

Walter Savage Landor
Wisdom, Men, Two
Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.182

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

Walter Savage Landor
Christian, Wise, Wisdom
Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.101

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