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
memories mind doe
When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.
memories passing-away generations
Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.
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?
memories convenience foreseeing
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
jobs memories past
Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.
memories feelings music-love
We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
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?
confidence security
Confidence is its own security.
fame tombs
A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.
general people whatever
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.
elevates future human life looks low nature occupied
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
buds fragrant harvest honey whose yield
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
mistake compassion intellectual
charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.
knowledge dust sticks
Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.