“Patience is the art of hoping.” — Walter Savage Landor | V2Melody

“Patience is the art of hoping.”

Defining patience as an active form of hope rather than passive endurance · Aphorism, commonly attributed

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Walter Savage Landor

About Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor

30 January 1775–17 September 1864

Walter Savage Landor was born on 30 January 1775 at Ipsley Court, near Warwick, England, into circumstances of comfort, cultivation, and inherited expectation. His father, Walter Landor, was a physician of substantial means and social standing; his mother, Elizabeth Savage, came from a family whose name and property…

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Poems by Walter Savage Landor

More remarks by Walter Savage Landor

“The highest price we can pay for anything, is to ask it.”

Asking as the ultimate cost · Conversation / essay (as commonly attributed)

“I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing.”

The painstaking search for the right word · Conversation / letter (as commonly attributed)

“To discover a truth and separate it from a falsehood is surely an occupation of the best intellect, and not at all unworthy of the best heart.”

Defending critical discernment as a labour both of mind and conscience · Imaginary Conversations