Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes - Page 7

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• Business before pleasure.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Business, Pleasure

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

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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.

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  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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• 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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• 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.

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  Spring, Light, Doubt

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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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• 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 sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

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  Wish, Half, Neighbor

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon, F. J. Sypher (1999). “Tales and sketches”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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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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• Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

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  Tests, Taste, Morality

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.123

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

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  Flower, Violet

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

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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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• There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

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  Self, Wretchedness, Reproach

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

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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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