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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Age: 36 †
Born: 1802
Born: August 14
Died: 1838
Died: October 15
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From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas! we makeA ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolvesLook down upon our slumbering acts.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Business before pleasure.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Curiosity is its own suicide.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
