Hope is love’s happiness, but not its life.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Hope
Who can confess his poverty and look it in the face, destroys its sting: but a proud poor man, he is poor, indeed.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Poverty
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.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Thought
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Light, Quotations
Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Praise
We speak of hope; but is not hope only a more gentle name for fear.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Hope
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
Topics: Music
Few save the poor feel for the poor.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Poverty
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves—when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer 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
The pride of blood has a most important and beneficial influence.—It is much to feel that the high and honorable belong to a name that is pledged to the present by the recollections of the past.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Ancestry
Half our forebodings of our neighbors, are but our wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is in life no blessing like affection; it soothes, it hallows, elevates, subdues, and bringeth down to earth its native heaven: life has nought else that may supply its place.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Affection
We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Music
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
Topics: Youth
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Happiness, Occupation, Busy
Our sympathy is never very deep unless founded on our own feelings. We pity, but do not enter into the grief which we have never felt.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Sympathy
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.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Pride
I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined; ever entered into with sympathy.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Sympathy
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Employment
Time is the great comforter of grief, but the agency by which it works is exhaustion.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Grief
It is the inevitable end of guilt that it places its own punishment on a chance which is sure to occur.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Guilt
Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Enjoyment
The retrospect of youth is often like visiting the grave of a friend whom we have injured, and are prevented by his death from the possibility of making reparation.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Youth
The heart’s hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Regret
It is very pleasant to follow one’s inclinations; but unfortunately, we cannot follow them all: they are like the teeth sown by Cadmus—they spring up, get in each other’s way, and fight.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
O love! thine essence is thy purity! Breathe one unhallowed breath upon thy flame and it is gone forever, and but leaves a sullied vase,—its pure light lost in shame.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Love
Our own faults are those we are the first to detect, and the last to forgive, in others.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Topics: Faults
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
Topics: Enthusiasm
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