Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.”
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“How beautiful, buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers—that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life.”
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“I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.”
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“Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?”
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“An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.”
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“I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.”
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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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“Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.”
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“My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.”
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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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“We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.”
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“There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.”
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“Few save the poor feel for the poor.”
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“But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way”
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“So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.”
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“Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.”
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“Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.”
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“Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.”
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“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.”
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“A woman's fame is the tomb of her 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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“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.”
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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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“All sweeping assertions are erroneous.”
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“Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music?”
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“We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.”
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“I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.”
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“Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.”
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“How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.”
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