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Delay in justice is injustice.
Walter Savage Landor
Delay
Injustice
Consult duty not events.
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Duty
Events
Great men always pay deference to greater.
Walter Savage Landor
Men
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Walter Savage Landor
Mind
Praise
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor
Ambition
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Walter Savage Landor
Men
Laws
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
Walter Savage Landor
Power
Ambition
Fame
Grave
Rest
Reward
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Walter Savage Landor
God
Solitude
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Walter Savage Landor
Conscience
Honor
Justice
Man
Vanity
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Walter Savage Landor
Happiness
Men
Goodness
There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
Walter Savage Landor
Delight
Singing
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor
Politics
Truth
Argument
Falsehood
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
Ingratitude
Reality
Self
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
Walter Savage Landor
Motivation
Act
Talk
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
Fancy
Ingratitude
Reality
Self