Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Age: 36 †
Born: 1802
Born: August 14
Died: 1838
Died: October 15
Editor
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Chelsea
London
Letitia Landon
L. E. L.
Letitia Maclean
Letitia Elizabeth Maclean
Asks
Wears
Willow
Away
Leaf
Emblems
Dream
Pillow
Bosom
Breath
Thine
Breaths
Blossom
Dust
Spray
Thee
Bosoms
Flits
Sea
Leafs
Inconstancy
More quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I can pass days Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees, Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,-- The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs, Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is strange what society will endure from its idols.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing--a little while-- 'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon