Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes - Page 5

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• ... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Love Is, Silence, Sanctity

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.88

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Party, Opinion, Discussion

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sympathy, Pleasure, Our Thoughts

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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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Country, Opposites, People

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

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• Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Memories, Flower, Past

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

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• I can pass days
  Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees,
  Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,--
  The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,
  Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf
  A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Nature, Fall, Sunshine

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1838). “Poetical works complete”, p.124

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• My heart is its own grave!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, My Heart, Graves

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

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• Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Summer, Flower, Eye

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1867). “Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.330

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