Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth14 August 1802
strong men despair
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
sleep angel feet
Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.
applause
anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
kindness people eating
It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.
class royal wealth
There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.
suicide fire may
Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.
equality class together
there can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.
sleep expectations anticipation
Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.
fame
Fame is bought by happiness.
lasts chance can-do
That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.
dating want seems
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
suicide curiosity
Curiosity is its own suicide ...
block believe mean
We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.
business pleasure
Business before pleasure ...