Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Over, Sentence, Which, Lamp

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Gardening, Harvest, Fragrant, Yield

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

Moving On, Think, Very, Hearts

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

Flowers, Memory, Faded, Recalled

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Sad, Tears, Own, Dew

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Art, Like, Large, Social Life

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Other, Ever, Large, Stock

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Very, Ever, Thoroughly, Occupied

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Life, Nature, Human Nature, Occupied

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

False, Divine, Our, Composition

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Sweeping

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Always, Prepared, General, Obnoxious

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Hope, Disappointment, How, Steps

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Common, Been, Might, Sum

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Need, Suffer, May, Pity

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Remember, Forget, Better, Regret

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