Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
1802–1838 England
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (August 14, 1802 – October 15, 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E.
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His heart is like a maggot-eaten nut:
There's nothing in it ; but 'tis closely shut.
Great power is almost always a great evil.
Knowledge, when only the possession of a few, has almost always been turned to iniquitous purposes.
You may find many a brighter one
Than your own rose, but there are none
So true to thee, Love.
Love is like the glass,
That throws its own rich colour over all,
And makes all beautiful.
— good news stops to take breath on the road ; bad news never requires it.
Deceit is this world's passport: who would dare,
However pure the breast, to lay it bare?
A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.
Ill nature is to conversation what oil is to the lamp—the only thing that keeps it alive.
True love is timid, as it knew its worth,
And that such happiness is scarce for earth.
I will look on the stars and look on thee,
and read the page of thy destiny.
Never, dear father, love can be,
Like the dear love I had for thee!
I loved him too as woman loves —
Reckless of sorrow, sin, or scorn.
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