Letitia Elizabeth Landon famous quotes

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

#Happiness #Men #Miserable

How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Beautiful #Song #Morning

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

#Heart #Thinking #Glasses

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

#Regret #Remember #Forget

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

#Light #Lamps #Fling

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Stars #Destiny #Astrology

Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Sleep #Angel #Feet

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Strong #Men #Despair

My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Heart #Sleep #Tears

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Kindness #Sometimes #Praise

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

#Might #Common #Might Have Been

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

#Hands #Suits

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

#Poverty #Poor #Feels

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Ignorance #Way #Young

So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Winning

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Confidence #Fearless #Thee

Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Love #Art #Flower

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Giving #Soul #Affection

What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Life #Pain #Passion

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Fame

My heart is its own grave!
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Heart #My Heart #Graves

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Long #Actors #Faces

Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same; The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Heart #Flames #Ashes

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Family #Pride #Feelings

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Sweeping

Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music?
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Strong #Memories #Inspiration

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

#Suffering #Needs #May

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Flower #Violet

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

#Broken Heart #Tears #Dew

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Disappointment #Track #Steps

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

#Art #Water #Skating

We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Memories #Feelings #Music Love

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

#Memories #Flower #Past

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

#People #Als #Way

We are ourselves our happiness.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Healing

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

#Attitude #Mean #Littles

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Gratitude #Men #Unhappy

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Children #Childhood #Children Love

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Travel #Passion #Ambition

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Hopeful

I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Nature #Fall #Sunshine

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Grief #Heart #Selfishness

And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Heart #Fate #Winning

The stars are so far, far away!
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Stars #Far Away

One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Sympathy #Pleasure

A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing--a little while-- 'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Light #Joy #Promise

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Heart #Eye #Dark

Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Summer #Flower #Eye

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Imagination #Solitude #Doubt

In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Men #Envy #May

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Ears #Flattery #Praise

I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Believe #Thinking #Giving

I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Flower #Car #Done

The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away; The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea; Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Dream #Dust #Sea

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Book

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Poverty #Rich

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Regret #Links #Existence

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Spring #Doubt #Mind

The wind has a language, I would I could learn! Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern, Sometimes it comes like a low sweet song, And all things grow calm, as the sound floats along, And the forest is lull'd by the dreamy strain, And slumber sinks down on the wandering main, And its crystal arms are folded in rest, And the tall ship sleeps on its heaving breast.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Sweet #Song #Sleep