"Society is like a large piece of frozen……" — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
"Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life."
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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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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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