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
stars destiny astrology
I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.
surprise herring misfortunes
Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
strong memories inspiration
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?
beautiful morning glad
How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning!
book
A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.
light lamps fling
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
regret remember forget
Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
sleep heart tears
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
heart thinking glasses
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
happiness men miserable
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
beautiful song morning
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.
beautiful song morning
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.
experience teach
Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.
politics hours advantage
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ...