Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Aplausos

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

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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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• Business before pleasure.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Business, Pleasure

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

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• It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Idols, Strange, Fame

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.5

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• Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Affection, Offense

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Flames, Ashes

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• Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Next, Firsts, Habit

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.117

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• It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Witty, Heart, Humor

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1854). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon: Containing Romance and Reality, Francesca Carrara, Traits and Trials of Early Life, Ethel Church, the Book of Beauty, Improvisatrice, the Troubadour, Venetian Bracelet, Golden Violet, Vow of the Peacock, Easter Gift, &c., &c”, p.401

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• The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Corazón, Ojo, Oscuridad

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• Eyes that droop like summer flowers.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Verano, Flor, Ojo

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1867). “Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon”, p.330

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• We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Impulso

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.234

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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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• Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Jealousy, Ridiculous, Tragic

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.160

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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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• Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Regret, Links, Existence

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.104

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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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• Nuestra primera carta de amor... Hay tanto que decir, y que ninguna palabra parece decir exactamente - el temor de decir demasiado está tan bien equilibrado por el miedo de decir demasiado poco. La esperanza raya en la presunción, y el miedo en el reproche.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  First Love, Letters, Littles

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.232

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

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fame, Tombs

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• ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Gratitude, Receiving, Favors

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