Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Regret, Links, Existence

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

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• Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sleep, Expectations, Anticipation

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

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• A woman only can understand a woman.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

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• Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  First Love, Letters, Littles

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.232

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Trouble, Truth Is, Disaster

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

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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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• Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

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  Broken Heart, Tears, Dew

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1850). “The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.163

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• There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Hands, Suits

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.97

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• Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Spring, Doubt, Mind

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• And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!

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  Heart, Fate, Winning

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1835). “The Miscellaneous Poetical Works”, p.173

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• How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Grief, Heart, Selfishness

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

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• Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Feelings, Absence, Meetings

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.37

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• A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

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  Book, Luxury, Lovers

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.5

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• The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Past, Youth

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

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• I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Family, Pride, Feelings

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.96

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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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Strong, Men, Despair

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

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• So much to win, so much to lose,
  No marvel that I fear to choose.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Winning, Loses

  "'The Golden Violet' ('The Golden Violet')". Poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 1827.

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• Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

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  Giving, Soul, Affection

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “The Poetical Works of Miss Landon: Complete”, p.37

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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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