A Quote by Walter Savage Landor

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess. — © Walter Savage Landor
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
Any material can be treated in any number of ways. Sometimes I might hear something, or someone else might hear something, and say, "Wow, that sounds like classical music." Somebody else might think it sounds like a slow jam.
But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
I will praise any man that will praise me.
You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.
My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.
People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?
We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
It is a great advantage for any man to be able to talk or hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject; for I have known people, who have not said one word, hear ignorantly and absurdly; it has appeared by their inattentive and unmeaning faces.
All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.
It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.
It's my personal opinion and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.
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