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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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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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.
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
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
Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.
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
Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
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The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
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Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is a large stock on hand but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
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
Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.
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
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.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas! the praise given to the ear Ne'er was nor ne'er can be sincere.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon