Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes - Page 7

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.

Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

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.

Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.