Top 100 Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
#3. Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
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#6. 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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#8. The blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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#9. 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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#10. 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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#13. 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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#15. I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
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#17. 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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#19. The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves ...
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#23. What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.
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#24. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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.
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#34. In came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.
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#36. Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.
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#39. We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
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#40. He who seeks pleasure with reference to himself, not others, will ever find that pleasure is only another name for discontent.
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#44. Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.
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#45. Praise - actual personal praise - oftener frets and embarrasses than it encourages. It is too small when too near.
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#46. Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable ...
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#47. 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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#48. English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
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#49. Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
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#50. 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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#52. 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.
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#56. 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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#57. Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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#59. 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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#61. 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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#62. To the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.
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#63. 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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#71. 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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#73. 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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#77. 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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#78. 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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#80. The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.
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#81. 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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#82. 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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#84. 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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#85. 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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#87. 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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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical ...
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#98. 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.
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#99. Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music?
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