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
people als way
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
healing
We are ourselves our happiness.
attitude mean enthusiasm-for-life
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
gratitude men unhappy
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]
travel ambition passion
Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
hopeful
Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
memories flower past
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
art water skating
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
sweeping assertion
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
suffering may needs
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
flower violet
I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.
hands suits
There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
might common might-have-been
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
kindness sometimes praise
Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.