Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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• No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.108

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• The stars are so far, far away!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Stars, Far Away

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

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  Suffering, Needs, May

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.235

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

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  Attitude, Mean, Enthusiasm For Life

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.240

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• Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

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  Experience, Teach

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.203

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• Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

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  Travel, Passion, Ambition

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.146

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

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  Life, Heart, Thinking

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.92

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• Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

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  Imagination, Earth, Balloons

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.319

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• Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

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  Golden, Moderation, Enjoyment

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.231

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• How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life.

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  Beautiful, Song, Morning

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.170

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• Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

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  Diversity, Opinion, Mankind

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.313

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• We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.

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  Love, Hope, Memories

  "Romance and Reality".

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• 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.

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  Lasts, Chance, Can Do

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.233

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• The fearless make their own way.

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  Courage, Fearless, Way

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.129

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

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  Light, Lamps, Fling

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.70

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• To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

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  Giving, Easy, Pleasure

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.85

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• Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.

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  Littles, Love Making, Little Love

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.79

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• Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.

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  Sweet, Kindness, Answers

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.288

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• What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

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  Life, Pain, Passion

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

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• sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

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  Travel, Sight, Different

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.233

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

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  People, Political, Als

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.245

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• My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.

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  Heart, Sleep, Tears

  "The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other Poems". Book by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 1829.

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• Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.

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  Jobs, Memories, Past

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.198

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• Confidence is its own security.

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  Confidence, Security

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.259

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• it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

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  Thinking, People, Desire

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.78

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