Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes - Page 6

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• Business before pleasure.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Business, Pleasure

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.200

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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 heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Eye, Dark

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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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• 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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• 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!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Fate, Winning

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Disappointment, Track, Steps

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1850). “The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.56

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fame, Tombs

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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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• 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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• 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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• Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Affection, Offense

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• Fame is bought by happiness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fame

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.58

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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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• 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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• Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Curiosity, Courtesy, Variance

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• Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Names, Mind, Armor

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.241

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• anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Applause

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.283

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Children, Sleep, Conscience

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

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Book, Luxury, Lovers

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

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• Farewell's a bitter word to say.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Farewell, Bitter Words, Bitter

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

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