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Letitia Elizabeth Landon Inspirational Quotes (106)

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Childhood, whose very happiness is love.
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Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
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I do love violets they tell the history of woman's love.
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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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Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
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My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
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Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
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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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Youth is a season that has no repose.
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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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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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the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
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I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
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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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All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.
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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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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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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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There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
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Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
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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.
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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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Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.
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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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