People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Quote by Walter Savage Landor

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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss...

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss...

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand,...

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand,...

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is...

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is...

Consult duty not events.

Consult duty not events.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Delay in justice is injustice.

Delay in justice is injustice.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

We talk on principle, but we act on interest

We talk on principle, but we act on interest

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we...

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we...