Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth14 August 1802
gratitude favors receiving
ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.
fire water imagination
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
firsts next habit
Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.
ideas habit eternity
habit is our idea of eternity.
fear expectations hours
no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.
lasts chance can-do
That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.
fame
Fame is bought by happiness.
farewell bitter-words bitter
Farewell's a bitter word to say.
witty heart humor
It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.
children sleep conscience
conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep ...
procrastination folly commit
of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.
strong work secret
there is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable ...
travel sight different
sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.
past repentance janus
Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.