Letitia Landon Quotes

» No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

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

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

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

» All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

» Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

» How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

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

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

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

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

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

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

» Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

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

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

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