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 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]
men envy may
In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.
strong men despair
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
sex men talking
Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.
men occupation miserable
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...
happiness men miserable
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
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.
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.
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.