Top 100 Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
#3. Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
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#5. 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.
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#10. Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.
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#11. I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.
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#12. Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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#13. Strange mystery of our nature, that those in whom genius develops itself in imagination, thus taking its most ethereal form, should yet be the most dependent on the opinions of others!
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#17. Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.
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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.
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#25. Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.
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#26. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. It is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.
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#31. Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.
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#32. That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.
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#34. 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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#37. The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves ...
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#39. Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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#42. Sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.
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#44. 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.
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#45. It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.
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#46. The blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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#48. I never cast a flower away,
A gift of one who car'd for me;
A flower
a faded flower,
But it was done reluctantly.
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#51. Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
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#52. The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
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#53. Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
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#54. 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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#55. Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...
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#56. Praise - actual personal praise - oftener frets and embarrasses than it encourages. It is too small when too near.
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#62. Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public ...
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#64. The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
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#65. The fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.
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#66. 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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#70. One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
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#71. We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
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#72. 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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#74. Sneering 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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#76. 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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#78. There can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.
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#79. I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.
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#80. The dream on the pillow,
That flits with the day,
The leaf of the willow
A breath wears away;
The dust on the blossom,
The spray on the sea;
Ay,
ask thine own bosom
Are emblems of thee.
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#83. Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
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#85. In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.
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#86. 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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#91. I would give worlds, could I believe
One-half that is profess'd me;
Affection! could I think it Thee,
When Flattery has caress'd me.
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#93. It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves ...
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#94. Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.
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#97. Oh, no! my heart can never be
Again in lightest hopes the same;
The love that lingers there for thee
Hath more of ashes than of flame.
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#98. 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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#99. We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.
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#100. Though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.
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