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Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Kindness, Sometimes, Praise

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Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Sex, Men, Talking

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.95

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In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Men, Envy, May

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How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

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Disappointment, Track, Steps

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1850). “The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.56

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heart, Eye, Dark

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Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.

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Education, Mother, Lying

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.248

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Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.

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Class, Luxury, People

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “The Works of L. E. Landon: In Two Volumes”, p.118

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

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Gratitude, Men, Unhappy

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Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

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Men, Occupation, Miserable

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It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Thinking, Speech, Should

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.211

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Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Next, Firsts, Habit

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.117

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of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

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Procrastination, Folly, Commit

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Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Imagination, Solitude, Doubt

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Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

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Regret, Links, Existence

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.104

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Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

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Sleep, Expectations, Anticipation

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.149

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A woman only can understand a woman.

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.219

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I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

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Thinking, Doe, Suspense

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

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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

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Change, Consistency, Routine

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.85

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The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

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Trouble, Truth Is, Disaster

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.392

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In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

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Opposites, Chemistry, Attraction

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.52

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to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

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New Shoes, People, Wit

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.366

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there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

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Wise, Advice, Easy

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.87

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Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.

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Memories, Passing Away, Generations

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.18

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One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over.

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Believe, School, Thinking

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.34

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Born: August 14, 1802
Died: October 15, 1838
Occupation: Poet
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