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All Quotes by author - Letitia Elizabeth Landon

" A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. "

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

" All sweeping assertions are erroneous. "

" An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. "

" Delicious tears! The heart's own dew. "

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

" Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present. "

" Few, save the poor, feel for the poor. "

" How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. "

" I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time. "

" No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. "

" Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. "

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

" We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. "

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

" Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret? "

" Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. "

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