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How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

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Party, Opinion, Discussion

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.165

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habit is our idea of eternity.

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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 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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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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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.

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Love, Art, Flower

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

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Surprise, Herring, Misfortunes

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

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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.

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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.

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Travel, Sight, Different

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

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

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Misery, Paint

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

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

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Talking, Tears, Relief

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

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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.

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Names, Pleasure, Discontent

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

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A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

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Book

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

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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.

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Imagination, Solitude, Doubt

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

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Physicians, Causes, Lovers

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

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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.

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Men, Envy, May

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The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

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Heart, Past, Youth

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

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

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Giving, Action, Projection

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Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

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Strong, Men, Despair

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.79

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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.

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Wish, Tests, Deceiving

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

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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.

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

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Past, Repentance, Janus

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

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I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.

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Country, Opposites, People

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.100

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Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

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Tests, Taste, Morality

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.123

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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.

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Wish, Half, Neighbor

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

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