Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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Few, save the poor, feel for the poor. The Poor Were it not better to forget Than but remember and regret?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
How noble and ennobling!—but within
How mean, how poor, how pitiful, how mix'd
With base alloy; how Disappointment tracks
The steps of Hope; how Envy dogs success;
How every victor's crown is lined with thorns,
And worn mid scoffs!

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

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
What he said of heads may also be said of experience — there is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us except our own.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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
Charles went towards the table, but he had no lady-like powers of filling four sheets with nothing, and the letter was soon sealed.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We do too little feel each others' pain;
We do relax too much the social chain
That binds us to each other; slight the care
There is for grief in which we have no share.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I do firmly believe that the Londoner is as contented with his city home as the dweller in the fairest valley among the Appennines ; and that habit brings its usual indifference as to place.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
He knelt him down on the new-raised mound,
His face was bowed on the cold damp ground,
He raised his head, his tears were done,
The father had prayed o'er his only son!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Clara:
Neighbours, dear friends, ye dream, ye dream : awake!
Gaze not on me with sadly wondering eyes,
I only bid you to your actual wish.
My voice is but the voice of your own hearts.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Mother:
Children and sorrow come together. First
Are sleepless nights, and cradle watchings — next
Your age is vexed with maiden fantasies,
And your girl's lover costeth you more care
Than ever did your own. It is not well !

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Unveil'd, unmask'd ! not so, not so !
Ah ! thine are closer worn
Than those which, in light mockery,
One evening thou hast borne.
The mask and veil which thou dost wear
Are of thyself a part;
No mask can ever hide thy face
As that conceals thy heart.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Time is the great leveller, but he is also the sanctifier and the beautifier.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
… unshared mirth only damps the spirits of a small circle …

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is so sad —
So very lonely — to be the sole one
In whom there is a sign of change!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I believe the love of flowers to be as inherent in the disposition as any other inclination.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The peasant boy, who followed the coloured track of the rainbow, hoping to find the blue and charmed flower which springs where the arch touches earth, is wiser far than one who gives youth, genius, and time to literature.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Ah! love is even more fragile than its gifts!
A tress of raven hair:—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
The bright cloud shone on the river's face,
But the death-black waters had not a trace
Of the crimson blaze that over them play'd :
It seem'd as if a curse were laid
On the grass, on the river, the tree, and the flower,
And shut them out from the sunbeam's power ;

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Music moves us, and we know not why;
We feel the tears, but cannot trace their source.
Is it the language of some other state,
Born of its memory ? For what can wake
The soul's strong instinct of another world,
Like music?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
And you, my fine poet, who thought that the earth
To another such minstrel could never give birth,
Already your works are all thrown on the shelf,
And their author condemn'd as an ignorant elf.—
Yes ; look thro' the world, and this truth you will find
That, once out of sight, you are soon out of mind.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
And this is Love! Oh! why should woman love;
Wasting her dearest feelings, till health, hope,
Happiness, are but things of which henceforth
She'll only know the name?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The present! it sinketh with sorrow and care,
That but for the future, it never could bear;
We dwell in its shadow, we see by its light,
And to-day trusts to-morrow, it then will be bright.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A great man does not leave behind him his genius, but its traces. Now, there is no disappointment so bitter as that whose cause is in ourselves.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A thousand songs from a thousand boughs
The glad birds' pleasure declare ;
The rills are laughing in crystal light—
For the presence of Spring is there.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon