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Letitia Elizabeth Landon [1802-1838] English

Rank: 104
Poet (with poems)

Romanticism

Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.

Art, Future, Gardening, Great, Hope, Moving On, Sad, Society, Time

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I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.	Moving On, Time	101
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.	Hope	102
Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.	Art, Great, Society	103
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.		104
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.	Gardening	105
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.	Sad	106
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.	Future	107
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.		108
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.		109
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.		110
Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.		111
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.		112
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.		113
Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.		114
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?		115
Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?		116
There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.		117

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