Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes - Page 3

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• habit is our idea of eternity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Ideas, Eternity, Habit

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Lasts, Chance, Can Do

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

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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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Love, Hope, Memories

  "Romance and Reality".

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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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Believe, School, Thinking

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

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• Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Love, Art, Flower

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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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• Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Surprise, Herring, Misfortunes

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.296

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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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• 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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• who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Talking, Tears, Relief

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.82

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• There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Misery, Paint

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.18

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• he who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Names, Pleasure, Discontent

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.36

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• ... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Pride, Vanity

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.51

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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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Travel, Sight, Different

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

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• A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Book

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

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• The dream on the pillow,
  That flits with the day,
  The leaf of the willow
  A breath wears away;
  The dust on the blossom,
  The spray on the sea;
  Ay,--ask thine own bosom--
  Are emblems of thee.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Dream, Dust, Sea

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Procrastination, Folly, Commit

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• Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Giving, Action, Projection

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• Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Past, Repentance, Janus

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.39

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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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• 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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• 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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