Letitia Landon Quotes
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.
(1802 - 1838)
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A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
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Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?
[The Past]
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Alas, we make a ladder of our thoughts, where angels step, but sleep ourselves at the foot; our high resolves look down upon our slumbering acts.
[Thought]
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All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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As the firefly only shines when on the wing, so it is with the human mind - when at rest, it darkens.
[Mind]
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Circumstances form the character; but like petrifying waters they harden while they form.
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Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
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Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.
[Poverty]
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Habits are the petrefaction of feelings.
[Habit]
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Half our forebodings of our neighbors, are but our wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
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Half the noblest passages in poetry are truisms; but these truisms are the great truths of humanity; and he is the true poet who draws them from their fountains in elemental purity, and gives us to drink.
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Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose veil no mortal ever raised.
[Happiness]
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Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold and despair.
[Youth]
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Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
[Hope]
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I frankly confess I have a respect for family pride. - If it be a prejudice, it is prejudice in its most picturesque shape. - But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.
[Pride]
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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
[Parting]
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