"An apt quotation is like a lamp which……" — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
"An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence."
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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30 Quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon has 30 quotes on this site.
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I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.
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Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
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I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.
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We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
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Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of…
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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
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All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
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I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last…
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We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
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Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they…
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Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
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More Apt Quotes
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil…
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let…
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I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women,…
— Sherman Alexie
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
— Lord Chesterfield
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to…
— Maya Angelou
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Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality
— Ivan Pavlov
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
— Alexander Hamilton
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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
— Mark Twain
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Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to…
— Oswald Chambers
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