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Letitia Landon

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

   

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

   

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art o social life.

   

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

   

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

   

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

   

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

   

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

   

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

   

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

   

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

   

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

   

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

   

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

   

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

   

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

   

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