Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes - Page 5

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• Alas! the praise given to the ear
  Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Ears, Flattery, Praise

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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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• Few save the poor feel for the poor.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Poverty, Poor, Feels

  'The Poor'

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• doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

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  Doubt, Stubborn, Facts

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.120

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• When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

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  Memories, Mind, Doe

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.175

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• A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.

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  Right Place

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.279

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• I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Flower, Violet

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1839). “Poetical Works”, p.130

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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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• I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.

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  Giving, Sigh, Parting

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon, F. J. Sypher (2006). “Poems from annuals”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Baby, Infancy, Heard

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.129

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• If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

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  Dry, Youth, Habit

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• It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer 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, Light, Doubt

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• I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Hate, Dull, Cold

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.88

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• Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.

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  Education, Mother, Lying

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.248

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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.

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  Family, Pride, Feelings

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

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• Youth is a season that has no repose.

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  Youth, Seasons, Repose

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.158

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• youth, balancing itself upon hope, is forever in extremes: its expectations are continually aroused only to be baffled, and disappointment, like a summer shower, is violent in proportion to its brevity.

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  Summer, Disappointment, Expectations

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.2

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• Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

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  Children, Childhood, Children Love

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1850). “The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.33

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• Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.

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  Hopeful

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1850). “The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.194

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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?

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  Memories, Flower, Past

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

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• Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

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  Suicide, Fire, May

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.64

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• English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

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  Fire, People, England

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.211

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• There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

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  Class, Royal, Wealth

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1844). “The Works of L.E. Landon in Two Volumes”

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• To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

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  Politics, Hours, Advantage

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.247

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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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Giving, Soul, Affection

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

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