Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes - Page 5

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• There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Self, Wretchedness, Reproach

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sleep, Angel, Feet

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1829). “The Venetian bracelet: the lost pleiad ; a history of the lyre, and other poems”, p.111

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• The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Physicians, Causes, Lovers

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.200

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• In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Wish, Half, Neighbor

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon, F. J. Sypher (1999). “Tales and sketches”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Wish, Tests, Deceiving

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”

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• From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Humility, Destiny, Situations In Life

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• Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Summer, Flower, Eye

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1867). “Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.330

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• Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Jealousy, Ridiculous, Tragic

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.160

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• I can pass days
  Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees,
  Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,--
  The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,
  Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf
  A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Nature, Fall, Sunshine

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1838). “Poetical works complete”, p.124

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• Business before pleasure.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Business, Pleasure

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.200

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• charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Mistake, Compassion, Intellectual

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”

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• Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Affection, Offense

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• Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Children, Sleep, Conscience

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.198

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• in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Baby, Infancy, Heard

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.129

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• Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Names, Mind, Armor

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.241

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• Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Feelings, Absence, Meetings

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.37

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• marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Dating, Want, Seems

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.17

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• Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Curiosity, Courtesy, Variance

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• A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Book, Luxury, Lovers

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.5

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• no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fear, Expectations, Hours

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.162

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• Oh, no! my heart can never be
  Again in lightest hopes the same;
  The love that lingers there for thee
  Hath more of ashes than of flame.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Flames, Ashes

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• anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Applause

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.283

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• A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fame, Tombs

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• My heart is its own grave!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, My Heart, Graves

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”

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• The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Eye, Dark

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