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• The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Poverty, Rich, Knows

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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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• A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fame, Tombs

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• Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Long, Actors, Faces

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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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• A blossom full of promise is life's joy,
  That never comes to fruit. Hope, for a time,
  Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light,
  And it looks flourishing--a little while--
  'T is pass'd, we know not whither, but 't is gone.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Light, Joy, Promise

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• charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered a merit; its fulfillment is only what we owe to each other, and is a debt never paid to its full extent.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Mistake, Compassion, Intellectual

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

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• Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.

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  Children, Sleep, Conscience

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

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• marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Dating, Want, Seems

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.17

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fire, People, England

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

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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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Suicide, Fire, May

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

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• Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Memories, Convenience, Happened

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.299

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Summer, Disappointment, Expectations

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

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Right Place

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

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Giving, Sigh, Parting

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

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• no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

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  Fear, Expectations, Hours

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.162

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• All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sweeping, Assertion

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.136

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• Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Confidence, Fearless, Thee

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1867). “Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.231

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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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