Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes - Page 5

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

Shopping, true feminine felicity!

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.