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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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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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The stars are so far, far away!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Business before pleasure.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
habit is our idea of eternity.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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
Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Shopping, true feminine felicity!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I hate the word 'ought' - it always implies something dull, cold, and commonplace. The 'ought nots' of life are its pleasantest things.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon