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All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Sweeping, Assertion

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.136

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Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Confidence, Fearless, Thee

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1867). “Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.231

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Men, Occupation, Miserable

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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]

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Gratitude, Men, Unhappy

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Shopping, true feminine felicity!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Shopping, Feminine, Felicity

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.16

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Art, Water, Skating

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 724-725), 1922.

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To be rude is as good as being clever.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Clever, Rude

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.122

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Curiosity is its own suicide.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Suicide, Curiosity

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.179

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The wind has a language, I would I could learn!
Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern,
Sometimes it comes like a low sweet song,
And all things grow calm, as the sound floats along,
And the forest is lull'd by the dreamy strain,
And slumber sinks down on the wandering main,
And its crystal arms are folded in rest,
And the tall ship sleeps on its heaving breast.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Song, Sweet, Sleep

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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 cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind - sympathy. ... I will have no evergreens in my garden; when the inevitable winter comes, every beloved plant and favorite tree shall drop together - no solitary fir left to triumph over the companionship of decay.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Spring, Autumn, Cutting

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.50

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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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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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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.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Jobs, Memories, Past

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

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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.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

New Shoes, People, Wit

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

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though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

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Destiny, Luck, Mud

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.79

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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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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Philosophy, Blessing, Reality

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.75

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Change, Consistency, Routine

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

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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.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Thinking, Doe, Suspense

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

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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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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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It merely shews, after all, that affection is a habit.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Affection, Habit

"Ethel Churchill". Book by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Chapter 25, 1837.

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