Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Quotes

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

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

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

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

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

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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