Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Hope, Steps, Tracks

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Assertions, Erroneous, Sweeping

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Understand, Whatever, General

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Light, Whole, Quotation

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Life, Great, Art

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Rose, Whose, Bee

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Past, Tell, Last

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heart, Tears, Dew

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Great, True, Mean

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Poor, Few, Save

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Time, Last, Break

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Miserable, Occupied, Thoroughly

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Experience, Hand, Nobody

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Life, Words, Might

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

May, Learn, Suffer

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Forget, Regret, Remember

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: August 14, 1802

Died: October 15, 1838

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